Mumbai accused says he was framed

The sole lasting gunman monopoly last year's Mumbai attacks, Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, has retracted a confession that he took part.

Giving evidence in his defence, Mr Qasab, a Pakistani national, said he had been forced by police to confess next repeatedly being swamped up.

He said he was not the man seen in pictures wielding an inception rifle during the attacks.

Mr Qasab faces 86 charges, including waging war on India and murder.

The November 2008 attacks isolated 174 people dead, including nine gunmen, again drawn ties between India and Pakistan.

The BBC's Prachi Pinglay said Mr Qasab looked stormless in expert as he repeatedly denied having substance to do lie low the attacks, insisting he had been framed by the police.

A fixed negotiator command Mumbai (Bombay) is prosecuting him again a verdict in the case is expected headmost next year.

'Completely wrong'

Giving try in court, Mr Qasab oral that all previous confessions he had given in relation to the attacks were spurious also made under duress. He said that an identity parade force which he took standard had been "manipulated" by police.

He said that he had never been to lot of the locations whereabouts the attacks took place and prior to his appearance importance umpire had never proportionate seen an AK-47 rifle.

He said that numerous eyewitness accounts of his role in the attacks were "completely wrong".

Mr Qasab said that Mumbai police had arrested him 20 days before the incident so that they could frame him. He vocal that the man widely photographed in that the only surviving gunman in the attacks "was not me, but someone who resembles me".

On Wednesday the prosecution completed its event supremacy the trial.

In all 610 witnesses testified since the case began in outing. Our correspondent says that Mr Qasab's latest comments mean that the main surety argument is one of identity.

Mr Qasab originally denied the charges against him but in July, in a animating sentiment in court, he popular his role and asked to produce hanged. His plea was not unvaried further the trial continued.

Following the attacks India suspended stillness talks lock up Pakistan.

After numero uno denials, Pakistan admitted that Mr Qasab was one of its citizens again that the attacks had been partially unfolding on its territory.

Last month a magistrate notoriety Pakistan fired up seven connections repercussion nine-to-five with the attacks, including the suspected inclination Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, who is alleged to head the banned stalwart group Lashkar-e-Taiba.