India, Nov. 26 -- Fahim Arshad Mohammad Yusuf Ansari, one of the two accused acquitted in the 26/11 terror attack case, can take up any job that does not require a police clearance certificate (PCC), the state government told the Bombay High Court on Tuesday. The stance effectively bars him from working as a commercial auto rickshaw driver, contrary to his plea filed before the court in February this year.

Unemployed since the printing press where he worked shut down during the Covid-19 pandemic, Ansari, 51, has challenged the refusal of the police to grant him a PCC which would enable him to work as a commercial auto driver. The refusal, on grounds of his alleged links with Pakistani terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), was arbitrary...