The corpses of the terrorists killed by the NSG and police in a 60-hour battle have been preserved in the mortuary of the Sir JJ Group of Hospitals.
The Mumbai Police will approach the special court set up to conduct the 26/11 trial to seek permission to bury the nine Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT) terrorists killed during the Mumbai terror attacks.
The corpses of the terrorists, killed by commandos of the National Security Guard and the police in a 60-hour long gun battle, have been preserved in the mortuary of the Sir JJ Group of Hospitals at Byculla in Central Mumbai.
"The bodies had to be preserved as we were waiting for someone to claim them," said police commissioner Hasan Gafoor. "However, since there are no claimants, we will approach the special court once the trial begins and seek permission to dispose of the bodies."
Gafoor, however, refused to say where the bodies were likely to be buried. Muslim organisations in the city have already refused to allow the nine slain men to be buried in any Muslim cemetery in Mumbai.
The terrorists whose corpses have been preserved in the mortuary are Ismail Khan alias Abu Ismail from Dera Ismail Khan (killed near Girgaum Chowpatty); Hafeez Arshad alias Bada Abdul Rehman from Multan; Javed alias Abu Ali from Ukara; Shoaib alias Soheb from Sialkot; Nazeer alias Abu Umer from Faisalabad (killed at the Taj Palace Hotel); Nasir alias Abu Umar from Faisalabad; Babar Imran alias Abu Akasha from Multan (killed at Nariman House); Abdul Rehman alias Abdul Rehman Chhota from Multan (killed at the Oberoi-Trident); and Fahadullah alias Abu Fahad from Okara (also killed at the Trident).
The trial in the case is likely to begin on March 23. It will be presided over by judge ML Tahilyani.
On February 25, the crime branch of the Mumbai Police had filed an 11,000-page charge sheet against the 38 accused in the terror attacks that rocked the city last year.
The charge sheet names 35 Pakistani nationals and alleged operatives of the LeT. Those wanted include Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Yousif Muzammil, Abu Kafa, Abu Ramza, and Zarar Shah. The names of two Pakistani Army officers — 'major-general Saab' and colonel R Saadat Ullah — also figure in the charge sheet.
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