Faheem Ansari

Faheem Ansari, also known as Mohammad Faheem Ansari, is an Indian Muslim who was charged with involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks and was acquitted due to lack of evidence. Ansari, however was convicted for fake Pakistani passport forging and aiding in the attack of a Central Reserve Police Force camp in Uttar Pradesh. He was also charged with being a member of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), an Islamic terrorist organization. He was arrested in February 2009 along with five others, charged with these crimes and prosecuted, but was acquitted after being given benefit of doubt. The late Shahid Azmi was his lawyer and fought his case pro bono. Faheem Ansari was discharged by court in May 2010, a few months after Shahid Azmi's death by gunmen in February 2010. He was released after 12 years of detention because of a case, in which he was acquitted because of lack of evidence.

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