Islamabad: Lawyers defending seven Pakistanis accused of involvement in the Mumbai attacks, including LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, have questioned whether prosecutors have hard evidence that the attackers trained in camps in Sindh and other locations. The defence lawyers made the contention during a hearing of the Mumbai attacks case at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi while cross-examining five prosecution witnesses who had testified that the attackers trained at camps in...
04:43 AM, Nov 12, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani officials have informed an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi the details of training received at Lashkar-e-Taiba camps by the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attacks. Judge Chaudhry Habibur Rehman on Saturday recorded the statements of five inspectors of crime investigation department who are prosecution witnesses, the daily Dawn reported on Sunday. They informed him about the training received by the accused, including Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, alleged mastermind, at LeT...
06:36 PM, Nov 11, 2012
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Sunday said that he hopes that when Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik visits India later this month, he carries the voice samples of 2008 Mumbai terror attack suspects with him. India has been demanding voice samples of the accused who were giving instructions to the 10 terrorists during the November, 2008 attack. Former home minister P Chidambaram, had made a similar...
06:08 PM, Nov 10, 2012
Mumbai: LeT operative and a key 26/11 Mumbai attack handler Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal sent money to India at least twice after the Mumbai attack, the chargehseet filed against him in another case here says. Jundal is an accused in Aurangabad arms haul case here. According to police, Jundal had gone to Dhaka in May, 2006 and from there he reached Pakistan on a Pakistan International Airlines flight...
06:40 AM, Nov 09, 2012
New Delhi: Alleged 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed has said that he condemns the attacks and is willing to answer questions by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) that will soon be visiting Pakistan in connection with the ongoing trial in the case. This is the first time that the Jamaat-ud-Dawat (JuD) chief has condemned the terrorist attacks in which nearly 164 people died and several others were injured....
07:06 AM, Nov 03, 2012
Gurgaon: India on Friday made it very clear that its decision to resume cricketing ties with Pakistan was not a "dilution" of its demand for action against perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attack and said Islamabad must deliver on its "frequently indicated promise" in this regard. Articulating India's expectation from Pakistan in the 26/11 case, External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said, We do hope this (resumption of cricketing ties) will...
07:10 PM, Nov 02, 2012
India and America are co-operating on terror, but the US won't hand over 26/11 terrorist David Headley to India, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Robert Blake said on Tuesday. Blake, however, emphasised that the US was aiding India with the investigations. ...
02:47 PM, Oct 30, 2012
New Delhi: The BJP on Tuesday welcomed the Home Ministry's decision to reject 26/11 convict Ajmal Kasab's mercy petition and demanded that he be hanged at the earliest to send across a stern message to terrorists and terror sponsors. "We welcome this decision of the government against Kasab. It should be implemented immediately now that the Home Ministry has rejected his mercy plea. Doing so will send a strong message...
06:56 PM, Oct 23, 2012
Mumbai: The Mumbai police on Tuesday filed a supplementary chargesheet in the 26/11 attacks case naming Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist and Mumbai attacks handler Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal as the main conspirator. The chargesheet filed by the police is voluminous and runs into 56 volumes. The documentation includes the alleged confession of Jundal and details of how he hatched the deadly terror conspiracy. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has Jundal's...
04:43 PM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday granted more time to 26/11 suspect Abu Jundal to scrutinise the chargesheet filed against him by Delhi Police. Jundal had requested Metropolitan Magistrate Ajay Malik for more time to scrutinise the chargesheet, supplied to him October 8. The court fixed October 25 as the next date of hearing. Jundal is in the custody of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) till October 20. The...
04:54 AM, Oct 13, 2012
Mumbai: The deadline for Mumbai's Anti-Terrorism squad to hand over the 26/11 key handler and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist Abu Jundal to the Delhi Police ends on Friday. A fresh production order was issued last month after the ATS had failed to present Jundal in Delhi. Earlier the National Investigation Agency (NIA) was given Jundal's custody till the October 20. The anti-terror agency had sought Jundal's custody for 15 days saying...
08:36 AM, Oct 12, 2012
New Delhi: The 26/11 key handler and Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist Abu Jundal was remanded on Monday in the National Investigation Agency's (NIA) custody till October 20 by a Delhi court. Jundal, who was produced before District Judge HS Sharma in an in-chamber proceeding, was handed over to NIA for 12 days. The anti-terror agency had sought Jundal's custody for 15 days saying he is required to be thoroughly interrogated. The...
04:55 PM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: The 26/11 key handler and LeT terrorist Abu Jundal was on Thursday remanded in judicial custody by a Delhi court after the Mumbai ATS produced him before it saying he was no longer wanted for his interrogation in cases registered against him in Maharashtra. Jundal was produced before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidya Parkash by the Mumbai ATS and was sent to Tihar Jail. Mumbai ATS had secured his...
02:42 PM, Oct 04, 2012
New Delhi: The "high professional ethics" of counsel Raju Ramachandran and Gaurav Agrawal, who sought to donate to the legal service authority their fees worth around Rs 15 lakh, earned for helping the court as amicus curae in deciding the appeal of the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist Ajmal Kasab, on Wednesday won the wholesome praise of the Supreme Court. Appreciating their gesture, a bench of justices Aftab Alam and CK Prasad...
08:10 PM, Oct 03, 2012
New Delhi: India is planning to send a team of National Investigation Agency (NIA) officials to Pakistan to examine the evidence related to the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. Sources say the Home Secretary has written to the Foreign Secretary asking him to inform Pakistan about India's proposal to send its investigators. The NIA team would physically examine all material evidence collected by Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on the 26/11...
03:33 PM, Oct 03, 2012
New Delhi Irked over Pakistan's failure to punish those involved in 2008 Mumbai terror attack, India has asked Islamabad to allow a NIA team to visit and examine the evidence collected against the attack masterminds before it allows the second visit of a Pakistani judicial Commission. India also wants the NIA team to meet the witnesses of the 26/11 case in which LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and six others...
10:13 PM, Oct 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Wednesday filed the chargesheet against 26/11 handler and Lashkar-e-Toiba operative Abu Jundal in a Delhi court. Even though Jundal is related to Mumbai attacks the charegsheet was filed by the Delhi Police because they had arrested a Pakistani national Mohammed Adil while investigating the Jama Masjid blast case and on his lead tracked down Abu Jundal. The chargesheet was filed by Delhi Police Special...
05:36 PM, Sep 26, 2012
Mumbai: Ajmal Amir Kasab's mercy petition, addressed to President Pranab Mukherjee, has been "rejected" by Maharashtra Home Ministry, days after the lone surviving perpetrator of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks set in motion the last option available to save his life. "The Home Ministry has rejected Kasab's petition and has forwarded it to the Chief Minister's Office," sources in the home department said on Monday. Under the rules, the Chief Minister's...
05:06 PM, Sep 24, 2012
Mumbai: The 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks convict Ajmal Kasab has sent his mercy petition to President Pranab Mukherjee. Kasab's mercy plea has been filed through the Arthur road jailor to the President's office. Kasab has been sentenced to death in the 26/11 case. If executed, Kasab will be the 52nd person to be hanged in India since independence. Kasab has ahead of him people like Mohammed Afzal Guru, the terrorist...
01:06 PM, Sep 18, 2012
New Delhi: Key 26/11 attacks handler Abu Jundal's police custody ends on Monday and the matter is set to come up for hearing at a Mumbai court. The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) was given the custody of Jundal for their investigations into the 2006 arms haul case and the 26/11 attacks. In May 2006, the ATS chased down two vehicles on the Chandwad-Manmad Highway in Aurangabad, one of which was...
08:04 AM, Sep 10, 2012
