“Kasab has been remanded in judicial custody till February 26. This has been done with a two-fold intention — to record his confessional statement before a judge under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) and to conduct another identification parade,” said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Rakesh Maria, who refused to specify the date on which Kasab had been shifted to judicial custody.

In accordance with the procedure for judicial custody, Kasab has been shifted from the high-security police lock-up at the Crime Branch headquarters at Crawford Market. “He has been shifted to an undisclosed location which cannot be revealed due to security reasons,” Rakesh Maria said.

Meanwhile, a three-member Crime Branch team that had gone to the US a week ago to interact with FBI officials for gathering evidence on the 26/11 case, returned to the city on Friday. The team, which visited Washington DC and New Jersey, comprised Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Deven Bharti, Senior Police Inspector (Property Cell) Arun Chavan and Police Inspector (Crime Branch Unit 3) Dinesh Kadam.

“It was a fruitful visit. The team had taken a Letter Rogatory (LR) with them to the US. Under Section 166 of the CrPC, if any investigating agency wants to conduct any investigation in a foreign country, it has to apply for permission to do so from the concerned local court, which in turn writes to the relevant court in the foreign country. The LR allows us to conduct investigations and collect evidence in the US, and it was secured on February 3. Besides this, we had invoked a legal assistance treaty signed between India and the US in 2005,” the Joint Commissioner said.