Click to play videoMumbai: Three months after an unprecedented scale of investigations, the Mumbai Police on Wednesday filed a 11,280 page chargesheet in the 26/11 terror attack.
Charges have been filed against Ajmal Amir Kasab and 44 other Pakistanis including 35 still wanted in connection with the attack.
The Mumbai Police also wants to investigate the Pakistan Army link to the Mumbai terror attacks further.
Two terror suspects Fahim Ansari and Sabauddin arrested from Uttar Pradesh also form part of the chargesheet.
While Fahim and Sabauddin were both produced before metropolitan magistrate MJ Mirza at the Qila Court, but Kasaab was kept in the safe custody of prison.
Kasab and the other two have been charged under Section 6-A, 9-B of Explosives Act, the Explosive Substances Act (Sections 3,4,5,6), Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, the newly passed Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, the Bombay Police Act, Waging War against Nation under Section 121 and murder, attempt to murder and causing greivous hurt under Section 302, 120(b).
To make sure they have covered all the grounds, Mumbai Police also charged Kasab with entering the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus without a ticket.
Kasab will be given a copy of the entire chargesheet, translated into Urdu, He still doesn't have a lawyer to represent him in court, but the man who will prosecute him Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam sounded confident about the crime branch's investigation.
"It is a bulky chargesheet. The crime branch has conducted its investigation well," said Nikam.
While the search for a lawyer for Kasab is on, Fahim Ansari's lawyer raised the first objections asking how the USA's Federal bureau of Investigation (FBI) was allowed to question his client.
But the court declined to hear arguments, setting the next date for March 9. The prosecution hopes to finish the case within the next three to six months.
"In this case all the 35 wanted accused are there and the chargesheet is running into more than 11,000 pages. We would like to complete this trial within the period of three to six months," said Nikam.
With the chargesheet now in court, the trial of the terrorists who made took Mumbai hostage and declared war on India for three days, has begun.
For Mumbai Police, the task to make the charges stick will be as tough, if not tougher then its painstaking investigation.
(With inputs from Rohit Chandavarkar)
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