Has India goofed up its probe into the Mumbai terror attacks by recording the confession of Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving gunman, in Hindi, to give a handle to Pakistan to question credibility of the terror dossier provided to it on Monday?
Still worse is the alleged use of Hindi in the letter written by Kasab to the Pakistan high commissioner in Delhi, which was handed to the High Commission on December 22.
The confession, included in the dossier, quotes Kasab as saying that it was read out to him in Hindi. The government might take the stand that the police officer who recorded the confession preferred Hindi as he might not be conversant with Urdu, the language that the terrorist allegedly knew, and that there is not much difference between spoken Hindi and Urdu that would make it difficult for Kasab to understand when the confession was read out to him in Hindi. However, if true that the letter Kasab wrote to the Pakistan High Commission seeking legal aid was also in Hindi, India will have no way to explain that as Kasab's writing as Hindi is not taught in Pakistan and a Pakistani national cannot be expected to write in Hindi. Urdu is Pakistan's language and would have been used by Kasab if he wrote any such letter. |