Mumbai: A railway employee today
identified Ajmal Kasab in a special court and said how the
Pakistani gunman and his associate Abu Ismael took him hostage
at the Cama hospital on November 26 last year.
Pointing towards Kasab, Dinesh Chinnekar, told judge M
L Tahaliyani, "This person and another gunman had asked three
of us to raise our hands and face the wall of a ward in the
hospital. My brother-in-law Thomas was also with me.
"We were scared and obeyed their commands. I saw on my
right side the taller gunman (Ismael) was stabbing a man and
later he fired a gunshot at the same person," Chinnekar told
special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam.
Chinnekar claimed Kasab then snatched mobile phones
from him and Thomas and warned them "aawaz karega to tumhara
bhi yeh hi hal kerega" (If you raise an alarm you shall meet
the same fate).
Kasab and Ismael took them to the washroom and bolted
the door from outside. Some others were also held hostage
there. For two hours they heard noise of firing and
explosions. Police came later and released them, Chinnekar
said.
Another witness, Dr Bhalachandra Chikalkar, an
associate professor of forensic medicine at the Grant Medical
College, said he had conducted the post mortem of slain police
officers Hemant Karkare and Ashok Kamathe.
Two other witnesses identified the blood-soaked clothes
of injured policeman Sadanand Date and victims.
Bureau Report
