Mumbai, January 05: Describing Faheem Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed as “co-conspirators” in the 26/11 attacks, special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam today told the Bombay High Court that the trial court had erred in acquitting the duo by giving them the benefit of doubt.
Nikam cited 21 circumstances to establish how Faheem and Sabauddin were closely associated with LeT leaders Abu Kafa and Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi, and had acted on their instructions to help carry out the terror attacks.
Nikam said both had prepared maps of target locations in Mumbai and passed them on to LeT in Pakistan which gave them to the 26/11 attackers.
Faheem had obtained a Pakistani passport on November 1, 2007 using forged documents. The passport was seized from him after his arrest in Uttar Pradesh in another case on February 10, 2008, Nikam said.
–Agencies