New Delhi - A total of 109 witnesses including those from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and foreign experts will be examined to establish the complicity of the Pakistani gunman captured during the Mumbai terrorist attacks, the Indian prosecution said Saturday.

A total of 1,820 witnesses have been cited in the case but only 109 potential witnesses will be examined, public prosecutor Ujwal Nikam informed the special court in Mumbai, the PTI news agency reported.

The trial of Ajmal Amir Kasab, who the prosecution accused of killing 166 people during the attacks, resumed on Friday after the special court in Mumbai appointed a new lawyer for the leading suspect.

Twenty-one-year-old Kasab, allegedly a member of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist organization, is being tried along with two Indian suspects in the case.

Nikam also gave an account of the evidence gathered by the police against Kasab and the two other accused in the case.

According to the IANS news agency, Nikam added that Kasab and another militant had planned to attack the elite Malabar hill locality, home to top Indian politicians, judges, industrialists and scientists, but were intercepted by the police.

Nikam said Kasab has also revealed in his 40-page confessional statement how the attacks were planned in Pakistan.

But earlier on Friday Kasab claimed he had made the confessional statement under duress and filed an application to retract the confession through his court-appointed lawyer, Abbas Kazmi.

"The denial will have no impact on the trial," Nikam said adding that the process of examining witnesses will start soon.

Indian police have filed an 11,000-page charge sheet against 38 people including Kasab. The charges allege key planners of the assaults included Pakistan-based LET leaders Hafeez Sayyid, Fahim Ansari, Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi and Zarar Shah.

Those men are in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, and have been listed as "wanted absconders." (dpa)