The voluminous charge-sheet running over 11,500 pages in the Mumbai terror attacks almost three months ago on November 26 last year on India’s commercial capital, categorically established Pakistan based people/entity’s complicity in the terror conspiracy designed and operated from the Pakistani soil.
‘What established Pakistan’s complicity was that the same kind of grenades (bearing manufactured from Argis, an Austrian firm) were used by terrorists in March 1993 serial attacks in Mumbai and subsequent attack on the Indian Parliament,’ said Rakesh Maria, Joint Commissioner of Police, Crime, Mumbai, who is also heading the investigation.
The charge-sheet filed by the Mumbai Police Crime Branch on Wednesday named 2,202 witnesses and a total of 47 accused, of which three arrested, nine killed and 35 still at large, including Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone arrested gunman, besides Lashkar operatives Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi and Zarar Shah as the main conspirators, and seven other Pakistanis – Javed Iqbal, Abu Hamza, Kaafa, Yusuf Muzammil and Abu Al Qama.
Maria said it would be premature to disclose the names of other two Pakistani accused who are officers and whether they belonged to Inter Services Intelligence or were still in the Army.
Kasab and the other accused, wanted or arrested, have been booked under the Indian Penal Code, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), Explosives Act, Explosive Substances Act, Passport Act, Foreigners Act, Customs Act and Arms Act.
The sections charge the accused of waging war against the country, conspiring and collecting arms to wage a war against the country, damage to property, murder, attempt to murder, abduction, forgery, possessing explosives and causing explosions.
The two Indian nationals, Fahim Ansari and Sabbuddin Ahmed, who were arrested from Rampur in UP following the attacks, have been charged with allegedly conducting recee at the CST, Taj, Oberoi-Trident hotels and Nariman House on the order of their Pakistan based masters and provided maps and footage of vital installations to terrorists.
Ejaz Naqvi, Fahim and Sabbauddin’s lawyer, however, alleged before the magistrate that both his clients were in no way linked to the November 26 assaults. He said his clients were arrested by the UP Police in connection with an attack on a CRPF camp in Feb last year in Rampur, and they have been in custody since then.
Fahim and Sabbaudin were produced in the court, while Kasab was not brought owing to security reasons.
Ujwal Nikam, the special prosecutor, who filed the case papers in the court of metropolitan magistrate MJ Mirza, said the trial would now be transferred and proceed in the Special Sessions Court inside the Arthur Road Prison from 9th March. Nikam said ISI had not been mentioned in the charge-sheet.
The dastardly attack in Mumbai conducted by the 10 alleged Pakistani nationals, who had sailed from Karachi to Mumbai, kept Mumbai under seize for nearly three arduous days and took 183 lives, including foreign nationals.
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