Cops get 13 more days to execute proclamation orders against Hafiz Saeed, 5 more 26/11 accused
MUMBAI, Sept. 18 -- A special court on Thursday allowed the police 13 more days to execute proclamation orders against Lashkar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed and five other Pakistan-based wanted accused in the 26/11 terror attack which killed 166 people.
The court granted the extension after special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said that the prosecution was still awaiting a response from the union home ministry on serving the orders through Interpol.
The six accused are Saeed, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Sajid Mir, Abu Alqama, Asim alias Abu Qahafa and Major Abdur Rehman Pasha. The court had issued proclamation orders against them in July as part of the process to prosecute them in absentia under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS).
The prosecution has relied on evidence concerning their alleged roles in the conspiracy, including the accounts of Ajmal Kasab, the lone attacker captured alive, and US-based accused-turned-approver David Coleman Headley.
Thursday's extension came nearly a month after the police told the court that they had approached the home ministry to facilitate service of the proclamation orders through Interpol. The ministry acknowledged the request on August 3, according to the prosecution's earlier submission, but the police have not yet received the response required to complete the process, Nikam said.
The court will now take up the matter on October 1....
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