Kazmi had been appointed by the state to represent Pakistani national Qasab, the sole terrorist caught alive in the attack.

Kazmi had last week been accused of telling a lie in the Special Court, prompting the judge to reprimand him sternly for his wayward behaviour with a threat to remove him.

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However, last Friday, he tendered an unconditional apology before the Special Court and was allowed to continue.

The issue arose last week after Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam expressed his intention to file an affidavit seeking permission to examine another 340 formal witnesses in the terror attacks trial. These would be in addition to the 271 witnesses examined by Nikam in the last eight months of trial.

When Kazmi claimed he was not informed of this development, Nikam pointed out that not only had he expressed his intention to examine the formal witnesses through affidavit right at the early stages of the trial in May, but on November 17 (2009), had even sent all the copies of the 340 affidavits to the defence lawyer.