Fahim Ansari returned to Mumbai from Uttar Pradesh court

LUCKNOW - Recently acquitted for his alleged involvement in the 26/11 Mumbai attack, Fahim Ansari, who was brought here Thursday for trial in another terrorist attack, was returned to Mumbai by a local court, a police official said.

“He had to be returned to Mumbai for want of certain documents relating to his involvement in the terrorist attack on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Rampur on Dec 31, 2007,” Uttar Pradesh’s additional director general of police (law and order) Brij Lal told media persons here.

Ansari was brought here by a Mumbai Police team along with another Rampur attack accused, Mohammad Sabahuddin, after the two were acquitted by the Mumbai special court of the charges of supporting the Pakistani attackers involved in the Mumbai attack.

“While the Lucknow court ordered Sabahuddin to be sent to the local district jail here, Ansari was sent back to Mumbai because of incomplete documentation,” police said.

“They would be tried here for their involvement in the Rampur attack that left seven CRPF jawans and one civilian dead,” Lal said.

Ansari was picked up from Rampur, while Sabahuddin was arrested from a hideout in Lucknow Feb 10, 2008. Both were stated to have received training in the camps of the Pakistani-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).

Following recovery of a few Mumbai maps from their possession, the Uttar Pradesh Police informed their counterparts in Maharastra, who eventually charged them with nexus with Ajmal Amir Kasab and nine other Pakistani terrorists who unleashed mayhem in Mumbai.

However, the Mumbai court did not see anything incriminating about the maps recovered from the possession of the two and acquitted them.