The Maharashtra Government has approached the Centre to ask Pakistan to take back bodies of nine terrorists killed in the Mumbai terror attacks last year.
The Maharashtra Government has approached the Centre to ask Pakistan to take back bodies of nine terrorists killed in the Mumbai terror attacks last year.
"We have approached the Union Home Ministry to ask Pakistan to take back bodies of the nine terrorists kept at the JJ Hospital morgue here," State Home Minister Jayant Patil said.
Patil said Islamabad had already admitted the identity of four terrorists, but the state government wanted to send all the nine bodies to Pakistan.
"It is clear that the slain terrorists had come from Pakistan and that country should take back their bodies," the minister, who had made the demand earlier this year also, said.
"We will wait for 10 to 12 days for response (from Pakistan) failing which we would take a decision on disposing bodies of the terrorists," Patil told reporters yesterday.
The confession by Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist in the attacks, has prompted the state government to step up efforts for making Pakistan take responsibility of the bodies.
Initially, the state government had decided to bury the bodies but dropped the plan following objection from Muslim clerics who said they would not allow terrorists' bodies to be buried here.
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