Click to play videoMumbai: Mumbai Police on Wednesday filed a 11,280-page chargesheet in the Mumbai terror attack before metropolitan magistrate MJ Mirza at the Qila Court in the city.
The chargesheet names 47 accused including the lone terrorist captured alive during the Mumbai attacks, Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab; Fahim Ansari, the terror suspect arrested from Uttar Pradesh, and Sabauddin Mohammad.
Fahim and Sabauddin are the two Indians involved in the attack while all other 45 accused are Pakistanis. The 45 Pakistanis include nine terrorists killed during the Mumbai attacks and Kasab.
"We have garnered evidence in our investigation to prove that maps were provided by Fahim and Sabauddin to help the perpetrators to launch attacks," said Joint Commissioner Rakesh Maria, the officer investigating the Mumbai terror attacks case.
"The Mumbai attackers took people held as hostage to higher vantage position to sustain the siege at the Taj Hotel, Oberoi Hotel and Nariman House and made no attempt to get in touch with any governmental or police to negotiate," Maria said.
"The 26/11 mission was a fidayeen (suicide attack) mission," he added.
Fahim and Sabauddin made detailed maps and carried out reconnaissance of all the important locations & passed it on to the terrorists who carried out the attacks.
During the investigations the test identification parade of the dead terrorists was also carried out with Maria revealing that it was the first time that conducted identification parade of dead bodies.
The chargesheet also established the role of marine wing of Lashkar-e-Toiba in carrying out the attacks.
"Kasab revealed during the interrogations that he was promised Rs 1.5 lakh to carry out the attacks," said Maria.
The accused wanted from Pakistan are Lashkar-e-Toiba operatives including the terror groups top commanders Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, Zarar Shah and Abu Qama.
Two of the accused were reportedly army personnel and the police are investigating if they were still with the Pakistani Army or are not part of the the LeT.
All the 10 terrorists who attacked Mumbai were trained in Pakistan with Lashkar-e-Taiba accused of planning and executing the entire operation
The chargesheet names includes the name of the three accused in custody, nine terrorists who were killed and 35 others wanted from Pakistan.
The names of other accused are Colonel R Sahadat Ullah, Major General Sahab (full name not known), Mohammad Ishfaq, Javed Iqbal, Sajid Ifthikar, Mohsid, Abu Fahdullah, Abu Abdul Rehman, Abu Anas, Abu Bashir, Abu Amran, Abu Mufti Sayeed, Hakim Saab, Yusuf, Mohsid, Kharag Singh, Khurram Sahadat, Abu Abdur Rehman, Abu Mavia, Abu Anees, Abu Bashir, Abu Hanjala Pathan, Abu Saria, Abu Saif Ur Rehman, Abu Imran, Hakim Sahib, Hafiz Mohammad Sayeed alias Hafeez Sahab, Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, Abu Hamza, Abu Al Kama, Abu Kahafa, Muzammil alias Yusuf, Zarar Shah.
"During investigations we have got details of two people who have got army designations which need to be established," Maria said.
While addressing the media on Wednesday, Maria said that investigations in the case are still on and the police have sought permission from court to continue investigations.
Maria said that the a single chargesheet has been filed and included details of the identification parade carried out, forensic evidence report, fingerprints, documentary and oral evidence collected in India and abroad.
He also revealed that the investigators have traced the financial transactions, satellite phone records.
During the siege the terrorists were not communicating with each other but communicating with the conspirators in Pakistan.
However, Maria said that it was still not clear if the weapons used by Mumbai attackers came from the Pakistani Army.
In our investigations we were not able to investigate the role of the origin of weapon from Pakistani Army. Grenades used in the Mumbai attack were of RG's make. These are of the same make grenades used in 1993 Mumbai attack and Parliament attack. RG's is an Austrian firm and the franchise was given to a Pakistan Ordinance Company. The origin of AK-47's used in the attack is yet being investigated," said Maria.
The accused have been booked under the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Explosives Act, Arms Act, Explosives Substances Act, Foreigners Act, Customs Act, Passport Act, Railways Act and causing damage to public property.
Nearly 200 people were killed during the almost three-day long Mumbai terror attacks by the Pakistani terrorists in November 2008.
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