25 February,2009 07:08 PM IST | | PTI
Three months after the terror attacks, which claimed over 160 lives, Mumbai police on Wednesday filed the chargesheet in the case naming 38 people, including Pakistani nationals Mohammed Ajmal Amir Qasab and suspected mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi.
Indian nationals Fahim Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed, arrested in the case for allegedly carrying out a recee of the targets for the attacks, have also been named in the chargesheet.
They were produced in the court today. 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 but Qasab, the lone surviving terrorist, was not produced before the court owing to security reasons.
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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 Qasab, an alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba operative, and others were involved in the terror strikes.
Qasab 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.
