Click to play videoMumbai: Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone terrorist caught alive during the November 2008 Mumbai terror attack, appeared via video conferencing on Monday before Metropolitan Magistrate NN Shrimangale.
Kasab asked for an Urdu translation of the chargesheet filed by Mumbai police in the attack case but the request was denied.
The Mumbai attacker has been confined in a highly secure and secluded cell inside the Arthur Road Jail and on Monday, unlike previous times, the magistrate did not go upto his cell. Instead Kasab deposed before the metropolitan magistrate through video conferencing.
Although media was not permitted inside the video conferencing room, they were allowed to hear Kasab speak.
He was heard in a conversation which lasted only for half a minute and his voice was indication enough of acceptance of his fate and preparedness to face the trial ahead.
The magistrate began by asking Kasab his name and the terrorists replied - Mohammad Ajmal Kasab.
He was then asked if he had received a copy of the chargesheet to which Kasab replied in affirmative but added that he did not understand it as it was not in a language he was conversant in.
The magistrate then explained to Kasab that it under the law it was not necessary to provide the chargesheet in the language of the accused.
Kasab was also informed that the next hearing of the case would be on March 23 in the session’s court.
"Fahim Ansari and Sabauddin (two others who have been accused of providing logistical help to the Mumbai attackers) have engaged advocates. Both the advocates are from Maharashtra and they know the language in which court proceedings take place. So if they want they can help him in understanding the chargesheet," said Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam.
The magistrate also committed the case to the special sessions court being set up within the Arthur Road Jail.
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