RAWALPINDI, Jan 3: The Federal Investigation Agency requested the anti-terrorism court of Rawalpindi on Tuesday to transfer its record of the Mumbai attack case to magistrate S.S. Shinde who has been nominated by the Mumbai High Court to head a judicial commission to look into the matter.

The government of Pakistani has endorsed his nomination. FIA's senior public prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali also requested ATC Judge Shahid Rafique to depute a court official as custodian of the case documents.

The judicial commission which includes Pakistani members will record statements and cross-examine Indian prosecution witnesses, including magistrate R.V. Sawant Waghule who had recorded the confessional statement of Ajmal Kasab, investigation officer Ramesh Mahale and two doctors who had conducted post-mortem on the bodies of terrorists killed during the Mumbai attack.

Chaudhry Zulfiqar told Dawn that the ATC had delegated its judicial powers to magistrate Shinde under section 506 of Cr. PC in the FIR No 1/09 registered by FIA's special investigation unit on the Mumbai attack.

He said five defence lawyers had submitted their travel documents to the court. The Pakistani team will also include two prosecutors and a senior official of the FIA.