CBI to approach Interpol seeking RCN against LeT founder

New Delhi, Aug 23 (PTI) India's premier investigating
agency CBI will soon approach the Interpol seeking a Red
Corner Notice against the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba Hafiz
Muhammad Saeed for masterminding the 26/11 Mumbai terror
attacks.

The investigating agency has collected all the papers
from Mumbai Police which include the non-bailable warrants
issued by trial court against Pakistan-based Saeed. The
warrant will become the basis for seeking the Red Corner
Notice from the Interpol.

"The interpol may issue a Red Corner Notice, once CBI
approaches it with a request. The agency will soon approach
the Interpol with the request for the notice," sources in the
investigating agency said Sunday.

Non-bailable warrants were issued by a Mumbai Court on
June 23 against Saeed and 22 others, including LeT operations
commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi and suspected military
official Col R Saadat Ullah, for allegedly hatching a
conspiracy to carry out the November 26, 2008 terror strikes.

Special Judge M L Tahaliyani had issued the warrants
asking the Mumbai Police Commissioner and the CBI Director to
execute them through the Interpol and produce the absconders
before the court soon.

Saeed had allegedly provided training to terrorists
between 2007 and 2008-end at Muridke (LeT headquarters),
Manshera, Muzzafarabad, Azizabad, Paanch Teni in Pakistan and
Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).

In December last year, UN Security Council has placed
sanctions on Jamaat-ud-Dawa, front organisation of banned LeT,
declaring it a terrorist outfit, and labelled Saeed and Lakhvi
as terrorists.

Imposing the sanctions, the Council had asked all
member States to freeze their assets and imposed travel ban
and arms embargo against them.

The decision was taken by the Council's sanctions
committee on al-Qaeda and Taliban which put JuD and the four
individuals on the Consolidated List of persons and entities
connected with the al-Qaeda and Taliban.

Besides Sayeed and Lakhvi, two other top leaders of
Lashkar-e-Toiba -- Haji Muhammad Ashraf and Zaki-ur-Bahaziq --
have also been declared as terrorists by the UNSC.

India had sought a ban on JuD after LeT was blamed for
the terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

The United States had sought a ban on Lakhvi,
operations leader of LeT who is suspected to have planned the
Mumbai attacks, Ashraf, a JuD financier, and Bahaziq, an
Indian-born Saudi who was suspected of collecting funds for
the banned organisations in Saudi Arabia. PTI SKL
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