A special court rejected the plea of Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone captured terrorist in the Mumbai terror attack case, for providing newspapers to him in jail.

"That is not possible.... Yeh ham nahin de sakte hain (we cannot give you this)", the judge M L Tahaliyani told Kasab. Kasab had urged for Urdu newspapers, a bottle of perfume and a walk outside his cell in a verandah. The court had earlier said his request cannot be granted but he still pleaded for newspapers.

The suspected LeT operative had even urged his lawyer Abbas Kazmi to give him money to buy newspapers in jail. Kazmi had refused to give money to him, saying it would not be correct to do so as he has been appointed by the state to defend him.

According to the jail manual, a prisoner has to buy newspapers from his own money.

Another eye-witness testifies in court

Earlier, another witness in Mumbai terror attack case identified prime accused Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab in a special court and said he (Ajmal) had fired at him (the witness) and Assistant Police Inspector Tukaram Omble at Girgaum Chowpatty on November 26 last year.

While Omble fell to bullets fired from AK-47 rifle by Kasab, I sustained a bullet injury in the waist, the witness API Sanjay Govilkar said in the court.

Govilkar is the second witness who has identified Kasab in the court. On Monday, police sub-inspector Bhaskar Kadam had identified Kasab.

Govilkar told special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam that he and Omble had grappled Kasab when the latter got down from a Skoda car, stopped by the police at Girgaum Chowpatty during nakabandi.

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