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three top cops, one of them, Hemant suggested that they had fled to that
Karkare, being the Chief of country.
Maharashtra State's Anti-Terrorist
Squad (ATS).
Gafoor said the Indians involved in
the terror attack had conducted a
Kasab faces 86 charges including reconnaissance of the areas that
waging war against India, murder were targeted and provided financial
and attempted murder. He has support for the operation, after being
pleaded not guilty to all the charges, trained in Pakistan. The locals who
and recanted a confession to the helped carry out the attacks came to
crimes that he said was made under Mumbai many months ago and
duress. stayed here, he said.
Pakistan, which had flatly denied the Gafoor also said that French
involvement of any of its nationals in government had filed a case based
the Mumbai attack admitted, though on the deaths of its citizens in the
after much procrastination, that part Mumbai attack and France might ask
of the conspiracy was planned in its for Kasab's extradition, but added
territory. that the Indian courts would decide
another militant, started their
massacre at the historic Chatrapati
Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai's most
famous land mark, killing scores of
railway passengers and a few
policemen who fought with them with
outdated rifles.
Speaking to reporters sometime back
Mumbai Police Commissioner
Hasan Gafoor said, "Pakistan's
admission shows the success of so
many police organisations, which
got together to fight. The Federal
Bureau of Investigation, the Scotland
Yard, the Singapore police, the
French police and the German police
whether to hand over the terrorist's
custody. Crime should be
investigated without barriers of
Kasab was caught on surveillance have helped us.”
camera as he stalked in holding a
gun and killed people on the railway
platform. He, along with his
companion, also shot some people
at the city's Cama hospital, including
“The police forces of these countries
have helped expedite the
investigations into the Mumbai terror
attack,” he added.
The involvement of the foreign
borders or nationality, Gafoor said.
governments and agencies became Speaking about how the terrorists
imperative because of the death of reached Mumbai, Gafoor stuck to
some of foreigners during the 60- the earlier version stated by the
hour long siege. The investigations Mumbai police. The terrorists came
as well as coordination with the from Karachi in the ship Al Husseini,
foreign agencies were led by Joint then they hijacked Indian ship Kuber,
Commissioner (Crime) of Mumbai after which they sailed in dinghies to
Police Rakesh Maria. reach the Mumbai coast, he said.
Gafoor also said that two Indians - Talking about the motive behind the
Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin for attack, the prosecutors said it was an
lending local support ahead of the effort to destabilize India and
Mumbai attack. Besides these, 16 highlight the issue of Kashmir. The
other Indians are suspected to be state is at the centre of a dispute
involved in the Mumbai attacks, he between India and Pakistan and has
said, adding that the names of the 16 led to three wars between the two
accused have been sent to Pakistani countries.
authorities as the information
received by the Mumbai police
Maria a veteran of many
investigations including the 1993
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