New Delhi - Indian police were expected to file charges Wednesday against the lone surviving gunman in the Mumbai terrorist attack of November.
The charge sheet would be filed in the court of a metropolitan magistrate in Mumbai, public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam was quoted as saying by the IANS news agency.
Besides Ajmal Amir Kasab, 11 others - including Fahim Ansari and Salauddin Mohammed, the Pakistan-based leaders of the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba - have been named in a mammoth charge sheet running more than 5,000 pages, the report said.
Islamabad, Feb 20 : Pakistan's Attorney General Latif Khan Khosa has said that any Pakistani court trying the accused involved in the Mumbai terror attacks could ask for the custody of lone surviving terrorist Ajmal Kasab through Interpol.
"If our investigators submit a challan against the suspects for their involvement in the Mumbai tragedy, a trial court can issue warrants for physical custody of Ajmal Kasab," he said.
Such a warrant could be processed through Interpol; The Dawn quoted him, as saying.
The Attorney General was explaining trial procedures to a group of media personnel in his chambers in the Supreme Court.
Islamabad, Feb. 18 : Pakistan has formally requested India to hand over Ajmal Amir Kasab, the "prime suspect" in the Mumbai terror attacks, to facilitate the successful prosecution of the other accused who had been arrested in Pakistan.
Karachi, Feb. 14 : Two days after admitting the use of its soil for plotting the Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistan has now said that it can demand the handing over of Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving Mumbai terrorist, from India.
Addressing a press conference here, Pakistan Prime Minister, Yusuf Raza Gilani's Advisor on the Interior Rahman Malik said Islamabad could ask India to hand over Kasab for further investigations in the Mumbai terror attacks.
Mumbai, Feb 13 : The police custody of Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving terrorist of the 26/ 11 terror strikes, has been extended till February 26.
A magistrate''s court here remanded Kasab to police custody for his involvement in a blast that took place in a taxi at Vile Parle.
Kasab was not produced in court for security reasons.
He has been in police custody since his arrest on the night of November 26 and booked in 12 cases by Mumbai police.
Meanwhile, the Pakistan Government registered a case against Kasab.