Daijiworld Media Network

London, Dec 3: 33-year-old Will Pike a resident of London, who was paralysed in his escape from the 26/11 terrorist attacks on the Taj hotel in Mumbai for what he claims to be lapses in the security provided to the guests.

The terrorist attack by Lashkar-e-Taiba that had shook the nation back in 2008, resulted in the death of 164 people along with injuring 308, continues to haunt many a memory even today. Will Pike's lawyers Leigh Day claimed to be placing before the court a civil claim for damages at London's highest court against the Indian Hotels Group company that is owned by the Tata Group.

Pike's lawyer Russell Levy said that the security had not been heightened despite prior warnings about an impending attack on the hotel that housed hundreds of guests. Pike was in the hotel with his girlfriend at the time Kelly Doyle, the night of the attack and had heard gunshots being fired before the pair sought their escape through a cloud of smoke to jump out of a window. They used the available bed spreads and curtains to fashion a knotted rope in order to escape. Pike jumped the last three flours down and the impact left him paralysed.

The lawyers said that it was unfair that their client would be made to travel all the way to India, in his wheelchair in order to claim justice. They did so, at a High court hearing today on whether the case should be allowed to go ahead in Britain rather than in India where the incident took place.