Mumbai:
The Mumbai Police have formally began the authorized course of to conduct an ‘in absentia’ trial in opposition to six absconding Pakistani accused concerned within the 26/11 Mumbai terror assaults in 2008.
Hafiz Saeed, the Mumbai assaults mastermind, is the chief of the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba terror outfit. The United Nations sanctioned Lashkar-e-Taiba in 2005 over its hyperlinks to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and america in 2008 added Saeed to its world terrorism checklist.
A coordinated assault by a bunch of 10 terrorists despatched shockwaves by India and the world. The terrorists had entered the town of Mumbai on the night time of November 26, 2008, through sea route and over the course of 4 days, they killed 166 folks and injured 300, in among the busiest components of the town.
Particular Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam, whereas chatting with NDTV, confirmed that the trial proceedings will transfer ahead in opposition to the important thing absconding accused: Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Sajid Mir, Abu Alqama, Asim alias Abu Qahafa, and Main Abdur Rehman Pasha.
The Mumbai Police despatched a proper letter to Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam requesting the initiation of trial proceedings below Part 356 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita.
Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam confirmed {that a} trial courtroom has already issued a proclamation in opposition to all six absconding accused.
As soon as the official report on the issued proclamation is submitted to the courtroom, formal trial proceedings in opposition to the six suspects of their absence will start.
If convicted by this ‘in absentia’ trial, the accused will face instant sentencing and punishment at any time when delivered to India.
Earlier in July, a Jammu courtroom issued a non-bailable warrant in opposition to Hafiz Saeed within the Pahalgam terror assault case
The warrant was issued after the Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) named him because the mastermind in a supplementary chargesheet.
Sources near the investigation instructed NDTV that Saeed, who operates from Pakistan below army safety, shall be tried in absentia.
Twenty-six folks, most of whom have been civilians, have been killed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam in April 2025.
