26/11 terror attacks chargesheet filed

Mumbai, Feb 26 (PTI) Three months after the terror
attacks which claimed over 160 lives here, Mumbai police
Wednesday filed the chargesheet in the case naming 38 people
including Pakistani nationals Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab and
suspected mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi.

Indian nationals Fahim Ansari and Sabbauddin Ahmed,
arrested in the case for allegedly carrying out a recee of the
targets for the attacks, have been named in the chargesheet.
They were produced in the court Wednesday.

Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, the suspected mastermind of the
26/11 carnage and believed to be hiding in Pakistan, and
Lashkar-e-Toiba operative Yosuf Muzzamil are mentioned in
the chargesheet as wanted accused in the case.

The 11,500-page chargesheet was filed in the Esplanade
court here but Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist, was not
produced before the court owing to security reasons.

Public Prosecutor Ujwal Nikam said 38 people have been
named in the chargesheet.

The Crime Branch, in the chargesheet filed before
metropolitan magistrate M J Mirza, has said that Kasab, an
alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba operative, and others were involved in
the terror strikes.

Kasab and other accused have been booked under various
sections of the Indian Penal Code. They have also been charged
with waging war against the country and offences under the
Customs Act, Explosives Act and other Acts. PTI SP
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