Terrorists dead bodies will have to wait as Pak turns its back

Sunanda P

Mumbai, Dec 14 (PTI) Nearly three weeks after the terror
attack in Mumbai, the Police is clueless as to what to do with
the bodies of nine Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists
killed on November 26 since various Muslim organisations have
refused to bury them in the country while Islamabad appears to
be disinclined to accept the mortal remains.

Mumbai Police had been advised to write a letter to
Pakistan High Commission in Delhi through the Ministry of
External Affairs (MEA) asking them to take the custody of the
nine bodies after the 60-hour long encounter that ended on
November 29.

The bodies have been kept in J J Hospital mortuary with
Police waiting for a political decision before disposing off
the bodies.

While Pakistan has been trying to crackdown on Lashkar
militants in its country, it has been denying that it has
received any communication from New Delhi to take possession
of the dead bodies of the nine militants.

When approached about the disposal of the dead bodies of
LeT militants, Mumbai's Commissioner of Police Hasan Gafoor
told PTI that "If there are no claimants, then there are other
procedures laid in the law for disposing the bodies."

Without confirming or denying whether they had
approached MEA for handing over the bodies to Pakistan, Gafoor
said "I can only say that all necessary procedures as per the
law...There is legal thing that we have to hand over the
bodies to a claimant. In case no one comes, we will take the
necessary procedures."
Hospital authorities, meanwhile, said they were
awaiting a decision by the police on the fate of the bodies.
"We are in correspondence with police everyday. Police
have not yet decided on what needs to be done with the bodies
of the nine terrorists, which are in the mortuary here,"
Superintendent of J J Hospital H H Jadhav said.

The Muslim Council in Mumbai has decided not to permit
the burial of the bodies of the nine terrorists who were
gunned down by the National Security Guards commandos.

The terrorists have been identified based on the
interrogation of Mohammed Ajmal Amir Iman, the lone militant
caught alive.

The two militants who attacked the Chhatrapati Shivjai
Terminus and Cama Hospital have been identified as Ismail Khan
alias Abu Ismail from Dera Ismail Khan and Mohammed Ajmal Amir
Iman alias Abu Mujahid from Ukara.
The attackers of Taj Hotel were identified as Hafeez
Arshad alias Bada Abdul Rehman from Multan, Javed alias Abu
Ali from Okara, Shoaib alias Soheb from Sialkot and Nazeer
alias Abu Umer from Faisalabad.

Nasir alias Abu Umar from Faisalabad and Babar Imran
alias Abu Akasha from Multan attacked the Jewish community
centre in Nariman house in Colaba area.

Abdul Rehman alias Abdul Rehman Chhota from Multan and
Fahadullah alias Abu Fahad from Okara were the duo who
attacked the Trident Oberoi hotel.

The photograph of one of the terrorists identified by
Ajmal as Nazeer alias Abu Umer, who was killed by NSG
commandos at the Taj Hotel, was not released since the body
was charred. PTI SP
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