Kasab used fake I-card, says Principal of Hyderabad college

MUMBAI: The Principal of a Hyderabad college told a special court here that prime accused in Mumbai terror attack case Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab was not a student of his college and he used a fake identity card.

He was referring to an identity card found from Kasab's possession which showed that he was a student of Arunodaya Degree and P G college, Hyderabad. The card was recovered by police after Kasab's arrest on November 26 last year during the terror attacks in the metropolis.

G Radhakrishna, Principal of the College, was deposing as witness to throw light on the seven identity cards seized from Kasab by the police and his six associates who were killed in the gun battle with the security forces.

It is the prosecution's case that terrorists had carried fake Identity cards to conceal their Pakistani identity.

To a question by Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam whether he had seen Kasab in college, the Principal replied in the negative, saying "he is not a student of my institution".

The principal said he personally knew all the 600 students of his college and Kasab was not among them.