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Lakhvi challenges his indictment in 26/11 case | Lashker-e-Taiba’s (LeT) operations head Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the alleged mastermind of the Mumbai attacks, has challenged his indictment in the 26/11case ,saying there is not enough evidence against him. Lakhvi filed two petitions in the Lahore High Court in which
he has challenged his indictment, and said that there was no evidence and witnesses
to prove his involvement in the ghastly attacks. According to one petition, there
was no evidence and witnesses against Lakhvi except Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving
Mumbai gunman, and five policemen involved in a case registered in Pakistan. “Kasab’s
statement before Indian authorities was not admissible to the case registered
in Islamabad and according to law a statement given in a specific case could not
be used in some other case,” the petition stated. The second petition challenges
Kasab’s trial separately under Section 540-A of CrPC. It said that the aforementioned
section could only be applied when a co-accused could not appear before court
for illness or other reasons, The Dawn reports. It may be noted that the Pakistan
government, on November 25, reframed charges on all seven accused, naming Lakhvi
as the mastermind of the terror attacks It took the Pakistan 364 days after the
horrendous attack that rocked Mumbai on 26th November 2008, but the charges clearly
appeared to be safeguarding Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who India
believes is the mastermind of the attack. The special anti-terror court set-up
in Rawalpindi’s Adial jail while rejecting the ‘no guilty’ plea of the seven accused,
summoned all of them to appear before it on December 5. Details about the proceedings
were not available as a media gag has been put in place, but sources privy to
the issue said that the government has deliberately tabled evidence in the court
with numerous flaws. Seven LeT operatives including Lakhvi, communications expert
Zarar Shah, Abu al-Qama, Hamad Amin Sadiq and Shahid Jamil Riaz are being tried
by the anti-terrorism court. They have been accused of providing training, financial
support, accommodation, equipment and communications gear to the 10 terrorists
who attacked Mumbai last year. Two other suspects, Jamil Ahmed and Younas Anjum
Jamil have been accused of obtaining a SIM card of Thuraya satellite phone service
from Jeddah and giving it to the attackers. Jamil is said to head JuD’s activities
in Multan. |
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