26/11 attacks: Interpol notice against 2 Pak army majors, 3 others
Interpol has issued Red Corner Notice against five accused persons, including two serving Pakistani army majors, for their alleged role in Mumbai 26/11 terror attacks.
India?s National Investigation Agency (NIA), probing the terror attacks, secured the Red Corner Notice after an additional sessions judge here issued non-bailable arrest warrants against the five accused, reports said on Thursday.
The arrest warrants were procured on basis of information secured during the interrogation of American-Pakistani terror accused David Coleman Headley.
Headley, a Laskar-e-Toiba operative who was involved with preparing the blueprint for the Mumbai terror attacks, was questioned by a NIA team in June this year.
The Red Corner Notice has been issued against Major Sameer Ali and Major Iqbal, both serving in the Pakistani Army, LeT terrorist Illyas Kashmiri, Sajid Majid and Syed Abdur Rehman Hashim.
Interpol Red Corner Notice are already out against Lashkar’s founder Hafeez Sayeed and his close aide Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi in connection with the 26/11 attacks.
Ten Pakistan-trained gunmen had carried out a 60-hour audacious attack on Mumbai landmarks from the evening of November 26, 2008, which had claimed close to 200 lives.
Only one gunman, Ajmal Kasab, was captured alive and he has been awarded the death sentence by a special trial court. Kasab has challenged the punishment in the Mumbai High Court.
