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CNN-IBN New Delhi: The Supreme Court has upheld acquittal of the 26/11 co-accused Aug 29, 2012 at 05:47pm Fahim Harshad Mohammad Yusuf Ansari and Sabauddin Ahmed Shaikh. The two IST were accused of providing topographical details to the attackers. The court observed that the evidence shows that conspiracy behind the 26/11 strike was Follow hatched in .

#26/11 Mumbai terror The government's had challenged the acquittal of the two. Ansari and attacks #Fahim Ansari Shaikh were acquitted by the Bombay High High Court due to inadequate #Sabauddin Shaikh evidence. #Mumbai #Supreme Court #Ajmal Kasab Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam put up a brave face by saying that the two 4 11

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were let off because of insufficient evidence and it was not possible to collect proofs.

The two were accused of providing topographical details to the 26/11 Mumbai attackers.

"No doubt prosecution could not establish the charge against Fahim and Sabauddin for want of sufficient evidence. There is a difference between no evidence and insufficient evidence. The evidence which was beyond the control to collect cannot be termed as defective investigation," Nikam said over phone.

A bench of justices Aftab Alam and CK Prasad, while dismissing 25-year-old Ajmal Kasab's plea against upholding of his death penalty, upheld the acquittal of Ansari and Ahmed, the two alleged Indian conspirators in the Mumbai attacks case.

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the Lashker-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorist was badly injured in the gunfight. MOVIES NEWS Mohit Marwah: Sonam, Arjun, The Bombay High Court had also refused to take cognizance of Kasab's Harshvardhan and I have confessional statement naming the two and said, "We have held that Kasab's distinct personalities 16 minutes confessional statement is true and voluntary and can be relied upon because, it is ago corroborated by other evidence. The question is whether part of the statement MOVIES NEWS which relates to involvement of Ansari and Shaikh can be kept out of 'Hate Story 2' trailer crosses 4 consideration," the High Court judgement had said." million views on Youtube 18 minutes ago "... It is open to the court to accept a part of the confessional statement which is corroborated by other evidence on record and exclude that part which is not MOVIES NEWS corroborated. In view of this, we find no difficulty in excluding that part of the Mahesh Bhatt unveils Rahat Fateh Ali Khan's new album confessional statement which refers to the involvement of Ansari and Shaikh as 'Back 2 Love' 23 minutes ago there is no sufficient corroboration to that part," it had said.

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The case against these two was considerably weakened by the reported Manali dam tragedy: May take 5 confession in an American court by US terror accused that he had more days to complete the reconnoitred the targets for the Lashker attackers. rescue operations, says NDRF 45 minutes ago

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