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Man acquitted in 26/11 terror attack petitions HC for certificate to drive an auto | Mumbai news

Man acquitted in 26/11 terror attack petitions HC for certificate to drive an auto | Mumbai news

MUMBAI: Fahim Arshad Mohammad Yusuf Ansari, one of the two accused to be acquitted in the 26/11 terror attacks case, has filed a petition in the Bombay high court, seeking a Police Clearance Certificate (PCC) which will enable him work as a commercial autorickshaw driver. The move is to prevent a repeat of a terrorist act like 26/11. (HT File Photo) According to his petition, Fahim’s plea for the PCC was rejected by Mumbai police on grounds of his alleged link with Pakistani terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Ansari, 51, has been unemployed since the printing press he worked at shut down in the pandemic. He has now challenged the rejection of police clearance as arbitrary, discriminatory, and seeped in prejudice. Ansari was arrested on January 23, 2009 on the charge of providing local support to the ten Pakistani LeT operatives who attacked Mumbai on November 26, 2008, killing 166 people and injuring 238 others. A special court cleared him and another man, Sabauddin Ahmed, of all the charges levelled against them on May 3, 2010, …