Mohammad Ajmal Amir Iman, the Pakistani terrorist who was captured alive on November 26 during the Mumbai terror attacks, has written to the Pakistan High Commission seeking legal help but the neighbour continued to be in a denial mode.

Iman's letter has been forwarded by the Mumbai police to the External Affairs and the Union Home Ministries for necessary action, Joint Commissioner of Police Rakesh Maria told reporters in Mumbai on Saturday.

He said that Ajmal has also asked the Pakistan High Commission to take custody of the body of fellow terrorist Ismail Khan, who was killed in an encounter in south Mumbai the same night.

Ajmal was the only terrorist captured alive by police while nine other terrorists involved in the terror attacks in Taj, Oberoi-Trident Hotels and Nariman House, besides Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus and Cama Hospital were killed.

Ajmal has been remanded to police custody till December 24.

However, the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi denied having received any letter from Iman.

"We have not received any letter," a Pakistan High Commission spokesman said.

Pakistan's denial comes against mounting evidence that Iman hails from Faridkot village in Punjab province of Pakistan.

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Iman told residents of his village in Pakistan's Punjab province during his last visit there that he was going away for jehad.

Iman, also known as Ajmal Kasab, visited Faridkot village in Okara district of Punjab about five months ago and asked his mother to bless him before he embarked on jehad, local residents were quoted as saying in a report aired by Geo News channel on Saturday.

"He came to the village about five or six months ago. He told his mother he was going away for jehad. He asked her to bless him and to leave his fate in the hands of Allah," said an unnamed resident of Faridkot in what the channel described as secretly filmed footage.

The channel said most people of Faridkot and nearby Depalpur sub-district were reluctant to talk about Iman on the record. However, in the secretly filmed footage, some residents were shown discussing his last visit to the village.

"A man from Faridkot said that on his last visit to the village, Ajmal gathered a group of boys near a school and asked them to catch him. He demonstrated feats of wrestling to them. Then we heard he had left home and joined a jehadi group," a man said.

A village elder shown in the footage said Iman's father Amir Kasab had moved to Faridkot from the nearby Haveli Lakha.

Amir Kasab used to sell 'pakoras' from a hand cart that he pushed around the village, the elder said.

The president of the press club in Depalpur too confirmed in secretly filmed footage that Iman was from Faridkot. The channel also quoted residents of Faridkot as saying that Iman's father had confirmed to several people that the gunman whose pictures were shown in the media was his son.