Keeping in touch through a messenger, Fahim prepared the maps and handed them to Sabahuddin in Kathmandu, who in turn, passed them on to the 26/11 conspirators.

When Shaikh joked whether Fahim had started a new business of drawing maps, Sabahuddin intervened and said that some of his Pakistani friends who planned to visit Mumbai wanted them.

'I also told him that there were many maps available in the market and why was he taking the pains to draw them. He replied that the maps available in the markets were not appropriate and so he was making new maps,' the witness told the court.

Earlier, a handwriting expert, in his deposition, had said that the writings on maps recovered from the slain terrorist Abu Ismail's bag matched the specimen signature of Fahim. Shaikh also identified the maps shown to him as the ones he had seen with Fahim in Nepal.

At this, Fahim got up and said that he did not know Shaikh and they were not friends.

'I don't know him. Friends make sacrifices for their friends. If he was my friend, he would not depose here,' he said.

The judge quipped: 'Tera dost aise hi hai, to hum kya karein?' (If your friend is like this, what can we do?)