I came to work in films, was framed: Kasab

New Delhi: Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the sole gunman on trial for the terrorist attacks on Mumbai last year, has a fantastical tale to tell.

Kasab on Friday retracted his confession before a special Mumbai court and alleged that he came to Mumbai on a visa 20 days before the attacks on November 26 last year.

He claimed he came to Mumbai to work in the film industry but was arrested on the night of November 25 and was implicated in the 26/11 case.

Kasab's surprise retraction of his own confession made on February 20 this year before a magistrate came while his statement was being recorded at the start of the second phase of the terror attacks trial before Special Judge M L Tahilyani.

Among other things, Kasab said that he was coerced into making a confession by the magistrate and said that he was not present during the attack on the Chhatrapati Shivaji Railway Terminus (CST).

"I was not present in the CST and I did not open firing inside the railway station," he claimed.

Kasab rejected the evidence of a witness, Bharat Tamore, that he had seen the Pakistani terrorist and his nine compatriots when then they got down from a dinghy at Badhwar Park.

Kasab claimed that he did not know anything about the dingy. "I have never seen an AK-47 in my life, or even a rubber dingy," he claimed..

He denied having spoken to Pakistani militant leaders who allegedly directed the terrorist attacks from Pakistan and said that witnesses can identify him because his pictures had appeared in Indian newspapers and TV channels.

Kasab admitted that he had met David Coleman Headley, the alleged Lashkar-e-Toiba leader under arrest in the US, but the court told him that Headley had nothing to do with his trial.

"Do baatein bolkar katham karna chaahtha hoon, aaj bhi mujhe bolne ka mauka nahin mila tho," said Kasab. (I want to finish by saying two lines, if I don't get a chance to speak then.)

The judge cut him short and told him that he had to answer questions the court put to him.

Kasab has denied all the charges levelled against him during the eight-month long trial.

Kasab and nine other Pakistan terrorists sneaked into Mumbai by sea in November, 2008 and went on a killing spree. Kasab was the only of them to be captured alive.

The trial in the case, which is being heard at Mumbai’s high-security Arthur Road Central Jail, is now in its last lap with over 250 witnesses examined by the prosecution.

(With inputs from PTI and CNN-IBN Correspondents. )