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Police charge sheet Aftab Ansari
for plotting to kill Kalam

The charge sheet, filed before designated Prevention of Terrorist Activities judge S N Dhingra, named Ansari, who was deported from Dubai in February this year, besides Pakistani national Arshad Khan, and Ghulam Mohd Dar and Ghulam Qadir Bhat from Jammu and Kashmir.

They have been charged under various sections of POTA and the Indian Penal Code for conspiring with terrorists, including Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar to assassinate Kalam while on a visit to Patna and to bomb the Bhaba Atomic Research Centre at Trombay, near Mumbai in Maharashtra.

The accused tried to assassinate Kalam when he visited Patna but the plan did not materialise due to lack of logistic support, it said.

They schemed to abduct Tendulkar and Ganguly to secure the release of hardcore terrorist Mohammed Amir Khan alias Mohd Kamran, involved in a number of bomb blast cases and now lodged in Delhi's Tihar jail.

Police had on July 23 chargesheeted seven HUJI militants in the court of designated judge S N Dhingra in Delhi, in connection with the case.

They are Tariq Mehmood alias Naeem, Ashahaq Ahmed alias Dilshad, Mohammed Ashraf, Abdul Majid, Mohammed Amran (all Pakistanis), Jalaluddin alias Rana, a Bangladeshi, and Mufti Mohammed Asrar from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh.

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