Gunman charged with Mumbai crimes

February 26, 2009, Thursday |

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INVESTIGATORS charged the lone surviving gunman from the Mumbai attacks with 12 crimes yesterday, including murder and waging war against India.

Pakistani Mohammed Ajmal Kasab has been held by the police since he was captured in the early hours of the attacks, but had not been formally charged.

Nine other attackers were killed during the three-day siege, which left 164 people dead and targeted luxury hotels, a Jewish center and other sites across the city. The formal filing of charges paves the way for Kasab's trial to begin.

The charges - a several-thousand page document - also included Kasab's confession, detailed accounts from 150 witnesses and closed circuit television footage that shows him and his accomplice walking into Mumbai's crowded Chhatrapati Shivaji train station and spraying it with bullets, Mumbai police's main investigator Rakesh Maria said.

Indian law requires that charges be filed against a suspect within 90 days of arrest. Kasab was formally arrested on November 28.

Kasab has already been given a copy of the police charge sheet, special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said.

If convicted of the two most critical charges - murder and waging war against India - the 21-year-old Kasab will likely face the death penalty.

India has blamed the attack on Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant group believed to be created in the 1980s to fight India rule in the divided Kashmir region.

India has also said that all 10 attackers were from Pakistan.

Earlier this month, Pakistani officials acknowledged that the Mumbai attacks were partly plotted on its soil and announced criminal proceedings against eight suspects.

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Gunman charged with Mumbai crimes

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