Vijay Wadettivar allegations are true, lodge criminal case against Ujawal Nikam for misleading 26/11 trial: Retd police officer Shamsuddin Mushrif

Kolhapur: Retired police officer Shamsuddin Mushrif demanded to register a criminal case against public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam for allegedly misleading the Maharashtra government and the trial court in 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks case.

Talking to reporters here, Mushrif, who wrote book 'Who Killed Karkare' on 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, said that allegations levelled by Congress leader Vijay Wadettivar on Sunday that a pro-RSS police officer gunned down then Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) chief Hemant Karkare and not by Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab and that Nikam hid all evidences supporting this from the trial court, were true.

For this reason, a criminal case should be immediately registered against Nikam, he demanded.

He said that the US intelligence agencies had given prior information to Intelligence Bureau about the terrorist attacks on Mumbai on November 26, 2008.

Despite US intelligence agencies sharing precise information of a boat that set out to attack 10 places in Mumbai with IB officer Prabhakar Alok, who allegedly did not pass it on to Mumbai police and the then state government, he said and pointed that this was revealed in the Union cabinet secretary's inquiry.

Nikam, who was a PP of the case, should have furnished this information to the court, however, he suppressed the same to save the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh people, who killed Karkare, Mushrif further said and informed that this was narrated in his book 'Who Killed Karkare' with all evidences.

On this ground, Nikam was totally responsible for this and hence a criminal case should be filed against him immediately, he added.

Incidentally, BJP has given a ticket to Nikam to contest in this Lok Sabha elections.