India, Feb. 17 -- Dismissed police officer Sachin Waze, an accused in the Antilia bomb scare and businessman Mansukh Hiran murder case, has sought the court's permission to have a laptop in prison to prepare his defence and to write a book. In the handwritten plea filed before a special NIA court, Waze said he has written various books in Marathi and English and claimed his book on the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks has been translated to English from Marathi by a renowned author from England.

Waze said that in order to prepare a proper defence for him, he must access, read, analyse and examine the contents of the evidence, which seemed impossible without a computer. Special judge AM Patil has posted the matter for hearing on February 28. ...