Case overview
The 2008 Mumbai attacks, colloquially known as 26/11, were a coordinated series of twelve Islamic terrorist attacks carried out in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, from 26 to 29 November 2008, by ten members of the Lashkar-e-Taiba. By the early morning of 28 November, all sites except for the Taj Hotel had been secured by the Mumbai Police and security forces. [1]
In 2022, one of the masterminds of the attack, Sajid Mir — who the Pakistani government had earlier said was dead — was convicted for funding terrorist activities by an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan and sentenced to 15 years in prison. In August 2026, the Mumbai Police initiated an "in absentia" trial against Hafiz Saeed, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Sajid Mir, Abu Alqama, Asim alias Abu Qahafa, and Major Abdur Rehman Pasha over their role in the attacks under Section 356 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita. During the hearing of the petition, the government informed the High Court that the Union government of India rejected the proposal to award the Bomb Disposal Squad of the city police for their contribution in defusing grenades in the terror attack. [2]
