Kasab not my student,says college principal

Radhakrishnan also looked at Kasab and told the court he was not a student of his college.

Radhakrishnan said details in the ID-card issued by the college are manually filed and then the principal signs on them before putting the official seal.

The ID-cards shown to him in court had computer entries and did not have his signature either,showing they were forged,said Radhakrishnan.

Radhakrishnan also showed the court admission records of the college since 2003,in which there was no mention of the names shown in the ID-cards.

All the ten attackers,of whom nine were killed,had been carrying ID-cards showing them to be students of various colleges. The ID-cards were allegedly given to them by LeT before the ten left for Mumbai from Pakistan. The ID-cards seized from the attackers had names like Rohit Patil,Arjun Kumar,Dinesh Kumar,Arun Sharma,Raghbir Singh,Sameer Chowdhry (Kasab),Naresh Verma (Abu Ismail).

Radhakrishnan is the first outstation witness to be examined at the special court set up inside Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail. The prosecution is also likely to examine witnesses from some other countries during the trial.

The prosecution on Tuesday examined four other witnesses,including Kedar Joshi,assistant record officer of the Nair hospital and Vinayak Joshi,medical record officer of the hospital who deposed that initially they had written Kasab’s age as 25 years in the hospital case papers. But after the directions from their seniors they corrected it to 21 years.

The other witnesses examined on Tuesday were Ramesh Manipuri,who had agreed to be a panchnama witness while the police were sealing the pistols of police officers Bhaskar Kadam and Hemant Bavdhankar,who had helped in capturing Kasab,before sending the weapons to the forensic laboratory,and Baccha Yadav,who was made a panchnama witness when the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad had defused a hand grenade seized from the Skoda car hijacked by the attackers on November 26 at Chowpatty.