Islamabad: A Pakistani doctor on Thursday recorded his statement in an anti-terrorism court hearing the 2008 Mumbai attack case about the blood samples he collected of the relatives of two attackers who allegedly took part in the carnage.
"A doctor from Multan district of Punjab province recorded his statement in the ATC Islamabad which is holding the trial of seven accused including Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi in Mumbai attack case," a court official told PTI after the hearing.
According to the official, the doctor told the court that he had collected the blood samples of the relatives of the two attackers (of the 10 participated in the Mumbai attack) for DNA test.
The samples have been sent to the Federal Investigation Agency, he added. The court, which held the proceedings at the high-security Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, adjourned the hearing till October 7.
Nine of the 10 attackers were killed in a shootout with Indian security forces while the lone surviving attacker Ajmal Kasab was arrested in an injured condition and later hanged.
In the last hearing on September 16, a former Pakistani magistrate testified that he had recorded the statement of an 'important witness' who said some of the seven accused had undergone training in a terror camp of Lashkar-e-Jhanghvi (LeJ) in Mirpurkhas in the southeastern Sindh region.
The accused include mastermind Lakhvi, who is currently out on bail and living at an undisclosed location.
Lakhvi and six other accused are facing the trial for allegedly planning and executing the Mumbai attack on November 26, 2008 that left 166 people killed.
Lakhvi, 55, secured bail last December and was subsequently released from the Adiala Jail on April 10 after the Lahore High Court set aside the government's order to detain him under a public security act.
