A bench of Justice R N Laddha allowed the petition filed by the Delhi Police, the Ministry of Civil Aviation, and the Ministry of Exterior Affairs difficult the trial court docket's 2018 directive that required them to furnish particular confidential paperwork sought by Ansari.
The trial within the 26/11 terror assaults case towards Ansari had been on maintain since 2018, pending the decision of a petition filed by authorities authorities.
Ansari is accused of getting not solely deliberate the assaults, but additionally of personally coaching the ten Pakistani terrorists who struck Mumbai on November 26, 2008, particularly educating them Hindi and essential particulars about Mumbai's topography to assist them mix in.
Ansari had filed an software earlier than a particular court docket in Mumbai in search of sure paperwork to substantiate his declare that he was arrested in Saudi Arabia after which deported to India. The trial court docket had granted his request in 2018.
The Particular Cell of the Delhi Police claimed that Ansari, a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative, was nabbed from exterior the airport within the nationwide capital.In 2018, the trial court docket had directed authorities to furnish the paperwork sought by Ansari prompting the authorities to strategy the Bombay Excessive Court docket in search of a keep on the order.Solicitor Basic Tushar Mehta, showing for the Centre, argued for the quashing of the trial court docket's order, claiming it was “dangerous in regulation.” The Excessive Court docket on Monday upheld the Centre's petition, thereby paving the best way for the trial to restart.
The assaults, carried out by ten closely armed Pakistani terrorists who entered the monetary capital from the Arabian Sea on the night time of November 26, 2008, claimed 166 lives, together with foreigners.
Investigators allege that Ansari performed a key function as a handler of the terrorists. The only real terrorist caught alive, Ajmal Kasab, was convicted and sentenced to demise by a particular court docket in 2010 and was hanged in Pune's Yerwada Jail in November 2012.
Ansari has been dealing with a spate of terror costs from Delhi Police, Nationwide Investigation Company, police forces from Maharashtra, Bangalore and Gujarat.
In 2016, Ansari was additionally amongst seven convicts sentenced to life imprisonment by a particular Maharashtra Management of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court docket within the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case.
He had managed to provide police the slip and drove to Malegaon and some days later he escaped to Bangladesh from the place he fled to Pakistan.
Ansari's identify had resurfaced as the person whose voice was intercepted within the Karachi-based management room which had been giving directions to the ten terrorists finishing up the 26/11 terror assault.
In 2012, businesses had narrowed down his location to Saudi Arabia and had confirmed it via DNA samples taken from his household based mostly in Beed. He was deported to India from Saudi Arabia in June 2012.
Throughout interrogation, Ansari spoke about his affiliation with varied Lashker commanders and his conferences with the founding father of the phobia outfit Hafeez Saeed and their recruitment plans utilizing our on-line world.
