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Mumbai accused says he was framed
The man alleged to be the sole surviving gunman in last year's Mumbai attacks, Mohammad Qasab, has retracted a confession that he took part.
Mr Qasab, a Pakistani national, said he had been forced by police to confess after repeatedly being beaten up.He said he was not the man seen in pictures wielding an assault rifle during the attacks.
Giving evidence in court, Mr Qasab said that all previous confessions he had given in relation to the attacks were false and made under duress. He said that an identity parade in which he took part had been "manipulated" by police.
He said that he had never been to any of the locations where the attacks took place and prior to his appearance in court had never even seen an AK-47 rifle.
He said that numerous eyewitness accounts of his role in the attacks were "completely wrong".
Mr Qasab said that Mumbai police had arrested him 20 days before the incident so that they could frame him. He said that the man widely photographed as the sole surviving gunman in the attacks "was not me, but someone who resembles me".
BBC News - English
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The man alleged to be the sole surviving gunman in last year's Mumbai attacks, Mohammad Qasab, has retracted a confession that he took part.
Mr Qasab, a Pakistani national, said he had been forced by police to confess after repeatedly being beaten up.He said he was not the man seen in pictures wielding an assault rifle during the attacks.
Giving evidence in court, Mr Qasab said that all previous confessions he had given in relation to the attacks were false and made under duress. He said that an identity parade in which he took part had been "manipulated" by police.
He said that he had never been to any of the locations where the attacks took place and prior to his appearance in court had never even seen an AK-47 rifle.
He said that numerous eyewitness accounts of his role in the attacks were "completely wrong".
Mr Qasab said that Mumbai police had arrested him 20 days before the incident so that they could frame him. He said that the man widely photographed as the sole surviving gunman in the attacks "was not me, but someone who resembles me".
BBC News - English
BBC News- Urdu