Chargesheet filed in 26/11 case; Kasab, Lakhvi named

Three months after the terror attacks which claimed over 160 lives here, Mumbai police on 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 on 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.

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