India, Feb. 28 -- Mumbai Fahim Arshad Mohammad Yusuf Ansari, one of the two accused to be acquitted in the 26/11 terror attacks case, has filed a petition in the Bombay high court seeking a Police Clearance Certificate (PCC) that will enable him work as a commercial auto-rickshaw driver.

According to his petition, Fahim's plea for a PCC was rejected by the Mumbai Police on the grounds of his alleged link with Pakistani terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Ansari, 51, has been unemployed since the printing press he worked at shut down during the Covid pandemic. He has now challenged the rejection of police clearance as arbitrary, discriminatory, and seeped in prejudice.

Ansari was arrested on January 23, 2009 on the charge of pr...