TADA court frames charges against 26/11 accused Zabiuddin Ansari aka Abu Jundal

“We had filed our objections to some of the charges on the previous date” said Ansari’s lawyer, Advocate Ishrat Khan. On Friday, Ansari will face trial through video-conference.

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“All charges brought against Ansari by the police have been framed by the court and none have been dropped. I will now argue on Friday for David Headley to be made a co-accused in the case,” said Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam.

Nikam had moved an application before the court last month requesting it to write to the United States Department of Justice to have Headley attend Ansari’s trial through video-conference.

Headley, who is serving a 35-year prison sentence in the United States, is stated as a co-conspirator and abettor of the 26/11 attacks in Nikam’s application.

Ansari, a native of Beed district, was deported to India from Saudi Arabia in 2012 and is alleged to have been present in the control room in Pakistan where the planners of the attack guided the ten terrorists and watched their progress.

Mumbai Police has alleged that Ansari taught Hindi to the ten terrorists who infiltrated into India and killed 166 people.

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