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| Pakistan may get permission to meet 26/11 witnesses |
| 2010-12-07 |
| [Arab News] The Indian government is likely to grant permission to Pak officials to meet the witnesses of Nov. 26 Mumbai terror attacks. The federal government is to file a petition in the Bombay High Court shortly to enable the Pak officials to visit Mumbai and interview the witnesses of the 26/11 terror attacks. The Pak government had requested the Indian government to allow its officials to visit Mumbai and collect information from the witnesses who will help them to make their case stronger in the Pak courts against some of the suspected accused jugged in Bloody Karachi and other parts of Pakistain for their alleged participation in the Mumbai terror attacks. Following this request from Pakistain, the Indian government has agreed to grant permission to the Pakistain officials for which it will file a special writ petition in the Bombay High Court. If the Bombay High Court accepts the plea, then the Pak officials would be allowed to meet and take statements of Mumbai city Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) R.V. Sawant, Investigating Officer (IO) Ramesh Mahale, those injured in the 26/11 terror attacks and the relatives of those dead in the attacks. In another development, the deputy chief minister of Bihar, Sushil Kumar Modi, said that the migration of workers to Mumbai and rest of Maharashtra has reduced drastically, but this is not due to the threats or attacks on the Bihari workers by goons of Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) but mainly due to the vast development by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in Bihar. Modi, who was in Nagpur to attend the wedding ceremony of BJP President Nitin Gadkari's son on Saturday, said: "The Congress ruled Bihar for 40 years while Lalu Prasad Yadav-led Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) enjoyed power for 15 years, but during their reign, Bihar remained a backward state. But under the leadership of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, the NDA government in the state has made tremendous progress in development during the last five years." Modi further said: "Bihar was famous for criminalization. However, The infamous However... the NDA government in its previous tenure punished more than 50,000 criminals, which included 120 criminals who were sentenced to the gallows and 10,000 were sentenced to life imprisonment. And this led to the stability and reduction in crime in the state." |
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