Mumbai Court removes Kasab’s lawyer

Assam News · November 30, 2009

S.G. Abbas Kazmi, the government-appointed lawyer for last year’s Mumbai terror attack accused Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, was sacked by Special Judge M.L. Tahaliyani on Monday. As per the Special Judge’s order, the case would now be handled by Kazmi’s assistant K.P. Pawar, who is also a state appointee in the trial.

The order came three days after Kazmi submitted an unconditional apology for ‘lying’ during the most high-profile legal trial in the country. Kazmi had been appointed by the state to represent Pakistani national Kasab, the sole terrorist caught alive in the attack. Kazmi had last week been accused of telling a ‘lie’ in the Special Court, prompting the judge to reprimand him sternly for his wayward behavior with a threat to remove him. However, last Friday, he tendered an unconditional apology before the Special Court and was allowed to continue.

The issue arose last week after Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam expressed his intention to file an affidavit seeking permission to examine another 340 formal witnesses in the terror attacks trial. These would be in addition to the 271 witnesses examined by Nikam in the last eight months of trial. When Kazmi claimed he was not informed of this development, Nikam pointed out that not only had he expressed his intention to examine the formal witnesses through affidavit right at the early stages of the trial in May, but on Nov 17 (2009), had even sent all the copies of the 340 affidavits to the defence lawyer.

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