Weighty Report: Chargesheet filed against Mumbai attacks ‘planner’
Chargesheet filed against Abu Jundal, allegedly a key conspirator behind the 2008 attacks.
MUMBAI:
Indian police on Tuesday filed a chargesheet against an alleged key conspirator behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which killed 166 people, an official said.
Police officers filed the hefty document to a local court accusing Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari, who was arrested in June, of being a key planner, Joint Commissioner of Police Himanshu Roy told AFP.
“It’s been sent,” he said. He told the Press Trust of India that the chargesheet, at more than 14,600 pages, includes names of 1,783 witnesses and 47 others wanted in connection with the attacks.
Ansari, also known as Abu Hamza or Abu Jundal, is an Indian-born member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba. He was detained at Delhi airport on June 21 when he arrived from the Middle East.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 17th, 2012.
Indian police on Tuesday filed a chargesheet against an alleged key conspirator behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which killed 166 people, an official said.
Police officers filed the hefty document to a local court accusing Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari, who was arrested in June, of being a key planner, Joint Commissioner of Police Himanshu Roy told AFP.
“It’s been sent,” he said. He told the Press Trust of India that the chargesheet, at more than 14,600 pages, includes names of 1,783 witnesses and 47 others wanted in connection with the attacks.
Ansari, also known as Abu Hamza or Abu Jundal, is an Indian-born member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba. He was detained at Delhi airport on June 21 when he arrived from the Middle East.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 17th, 2012.