A Pakistani judicial commission is likely to visit the city early next month to interview key persons in connection with the probe in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, police said on Thursday.
"We have information that the judicial commission will visit here either on February 3 or 4. The team might visit the terror sites as well as part of the investigation. The commission will be accommodated in south Mumbai," a crime branch official. The Bombay High Court has already given its consent, allowing the Commission to visit India.
Recently, the court had informed the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) that the in-principle approval for the visit of the Pakistani Judicial Commission has been given. The Pakistani Commission will take the statements of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate R. V. Sawant Waghule and Investigating Officer Ramesh Mahale, who had recorded the confessional statement of Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist involved in the 26/11 attacks, to pursue the case in Pakistan.
It will also take the statements of the two doctors who carried out post mortem of the terrorists killed during the attack. Pakistan has already issued a gazette notification on the formation of the judicial commission and has listed the members who will represent Pakistan government.
The delegation will also include Khalid Qureshi, the head of the Federal Investigation Agency's Special Investigation Group, and Muhammad Azhar Chaudhry and Chaudhry Zulfiqar, the two main prosecutors.