Mumbai: A court on Thursday watched security TV footage of the terror attack at Chhatarapati Shivaji Terminus on November 26 which showed alleged Pakistani terrorists Mohammed Ajmal Kasab and Abu Ismail gunning down the public and police.
The footage was of poor quality and the faces of Kasab and Ismail were not clearly seen. Footage of cameras in the main waiting hall of the terminus, where maximum casualties took place, was not available since the devices placed there were not functioning on the day and were scheduled for maintenance.
Footage recorded by the cameras on the suburban section of the terminus was mainly screened in the court.
The entire footage, recorded after 2130 hours on November
26, runs into one hour and fifteen minutes, but the court has viewed only 15 minutes which were relevant to the case.
Images from one camera showed the two gunmen moving about in the main waiting hall of CST and one of them firing at police personnel from a distance.
Kasab, the arrested gunman, sat silently in the dock and did not react to the footage that was being screened.
Both the gunmen are also seen going out of the terminus at about 2209 hours and then returning back inside at about 2216 hours.
In the footage from another camera, the two are seen cris-crossing between the pillars Rpt pillars of a deserted platform no 1 of suburban line of the terminus.
When asked about the quality of the images in which the gunmen's faces were not visible, special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said it would not affect the prosecution's case.
"The film is corroborative in nature. It supports the evidence given by eyewitnesses and photographs of the two gunmen firing at CST which were taken by a photojournalist," Nikam said.
Earlier, Special Judge M L Tahiliyani said he would consider six CDs of the CCTV footage at CST as secondary evidence.
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