JOIN USPolice Sub Inspector Bhaskar Kadam, who was in the team which caught Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab and killed Ismail at Girgaum chowpatti during the Mumbai attacks, continued his deposition and identified the two AK-47 rifles which were displayed in the court.
While one AK-47 was made in Pakistan, the other belonged to Additional Commissioner of Police Ashok Kamte, who, along with the then Mumbai ATS chief Hemant Karkare and ‘encounter specialist’ Vijay Salaskar, was killed on the Cama hospital lane by the two terrorists.
Ismail had snatched the AK-47 from Kamte and the duo then hijacked the police vehicle to flee. They changed the vehicle at Vidhan Bhavan due to tyre deflation and hijacked a Skoda car, which was stopped at Girgaum chowpatti by the police. Ismail used Kamte’s AK-47 rifle to fire at people standing at Metro cinema junction, in which a policeman was killed.
Kadam told the court that along with the AK-47 rifles, two pistols of 9 mm were also seized from the accused. One of them was made in Pakistan and the name of the company was mentioned as ‘Diamond Nadi Frontier Arms Company, Peshawar’.
At this point, Kasab laughed, claiming that the weapon did not belong to him. This made judge M L Tahilyani’s warn Kasab to behave properly in the court.