Home Minister`s statement creates flutter in 26/11 trial court

Mumbai, Aug 26 (PTI) The statement made by Home Minister
of India's western state Maharashtra Jayant Patil that
judgement in 26/11 terror attack case is likely to be
delivered by September 15 has created a flutter in the trial
court with the prosecutor saying Patil had been misquoted by
the media.

Lone surviving gunman Mohammed Ajmal Kasab and two
other suspected members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, Faheem Ansari and
Shahbuddin Ahmed are undergoing the trial.

While judge M L Tahaliyani said in the court Tuesday
that the judgement cannot be delivered so soon and wondered
how the minister made such a statement, special public
prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam informed that he had personally talked
to the minister who clarified that the media misquoted him.

"Your Home Minister makes a statement that the case will
be over by September 15 but his officer has still not
submitted documents in the court," the judge observed.

However, Nikam told the court that Patil had remarked
about recording of evidence to be over by September 15 and not
about the delivery of judgement. MORE PTI