Prosecution seeks panel to examine boat used in 26/11 attacks

A commission should be constituted to examine the boat used by the 10 LeT terrorists to reach the Indian coast to carry out the 2008 Mumbai attacks, prosecution in the case on Wednesday pleaded a Pakistani anti-terrorism court (ATC).

“A commission should be formed to examine the boat used by alleged terrorists of Mumbai attack,” the prosecution said in an application filed in the ATC Islamabad, which held the hearing at Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi.

The boat is in the custody of Pakistani authorities in the port city of Karachi, from where the 10 Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militants, armed with AK-47 assault rifles and hand grenades, had left for India.

“The boat is a case property and should be examined by the defence lawyers as well and for the purpose the court should constitute a commission,” it said. The ATC issued a notice to the defence and the matter will be heard during the hearing on January 6, a court official said. The 10 LeT militants had left Karachi on the boat on November 23, 2008. En route, they hijacked another boat, killing four of its crew. They allegedly forced the vessels’s captain to take them close to the India shores. The captain was killed when the vessel reached Mumbai’s coast.