The US government has filed a second chargesheet in a Chicago court in the 26/11 terror strike in Mumbai naming five people as accused in the case.

The chargesheet filed in the US court, according to media reports on Monday, named the five accused as-Sajid Majeed, Abu Qahafa, Mazhar Iqbal, Major Iqbal and a Lashkar-e-Toiba member.

The accused were named in the Tahawwur Rana case.

Rana is a Pakistani Canadian and like Pakistani American David Coleman Headley is involved in the Mumbai attack.

The Chicago trial of the 2008 Mumbai attacks will be held from the 16th of this month.

The federal prosecutors in USA indicted some more suspects last week in this case.

According to Indian government, Sajid Majeed, one of the chargesheeted accused, is a senior Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) Commander and heads the LeT’s ‘India set up’. He was the key planner of Mumbai terror attacks.

He was the LeT’s main handler of David Coleman Headley and provided financial and logistic support to him for conducting surveillance of the targets for the Mumbai attacks.

He was personally involved in the training and briefing of all the 10 terrorists who carried out the Mumbai attacks.

India says Sajid Majeed was most probably present in the Lashkar control room in Karachi during 26/11 and the Government of India has asked for his voice samples from Pakistan.

India has asked for voice samples of three other accused named in the chargesheet too.

India says Abu Qahafa mentioned in the chargesheet is a senior LeT trainer and an expert in handling arms and explosives who is one of the main conspirators of the Mumbai terror attacks.

He is an absconding accused in the Mumbai terror attack case.

He was closely involved in providing physical and technical training to the 10 terrorists who carried out the Mumbai attacks.

He imparted training in GPS handling and map reading to the attackers.

Abu Alqama in the chargesheet is a senior LeT Commander who was in charge of the Kashmir set up till 2008.

He was involved in training and briefing of all the 10 terrorists who carried out the Mumbai terror attacks.

He was present in Karachi when the attackers left the shores of Pakistan for Mumbai.

Lashkar member D is believed to be the overall operational commander of LeT. (After the arrest of Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi).

He is one of the important conspirators of the Mumbai attacks and is an absconding accused in the case.

Major Iqbal, another accused chargesheeted, is suspected to be a Pakistan ISI officer who was posted in Lahore during 2007 and 2008.

Major Iqbal was handling David Coleman Headley on behalf of ISI for the Mumbai terror attacks.

He provided funds ($25,000) and FICN to David Coleman Headley for meeting his expenses during the surveillance operations in India.

David Headley used to give all the surveillance videos first to Major Iqbal and then to the LeT.

All accused were charged, on Monday in the district court in Chicago though none of them is in custody of the US government.

US paper Chicago Tribune said Tahawwur Hussain Rana is alleged to have provided a cover for the scout (Headley) “who checked out locations for the deadly rampage and acted as a messenger for the Pakistani terrorist group allegedly behind the 2008 attack.”

The 2008 Mumbai attacks across India’s financial nerve centre in 10 coordinated shooting and bombing strikes in luxury hotels, railway station, hospital and a Jewish house by Pakistan-based terrorists killed 164 people and wounded over 300.

PM speaks to Obama, discusses Osama’s killing

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President Barack Obama on Monday discussed over phone the American operation that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad in Pakistan and the situation in the region.

A PMO spokesman said Singh and Obama discussed further growth and development of Indo-US relations.

“It was a warm conversation which covered wide-ranging subjects,” he said. A statement issued by White House in Washington said Obama spoke to Singh to discuss the “successful American action against Osama bin Laden.” However, it did not give further details.

This is the first conversation between the two leaders since the killing of Osama on May 2 in a raid by US Special Forces in the garrison city of Abbotabad.

The White House statement said the two leaders also reviewed progress in implementing the initiatives launched during Obama’s November 2010 visit to India.

“The two leaders re-affirmed their commitment to building a global, strategic partnership, including defence cooperation, and looked forward to the upcoming meetings of the Strategic Dialogue, the Homeland Security Dialogue, the Joint Space Working Group, and the High-Technology Cooperation Group,” the statement said.

The two leaders also discussed global and regional issues of mutual concern.

Singh had termed bin Laden’s killing as a significant step forward and asked the international community and Pakistan in particular to work comprehensively to end the activities of all terror groups.

The Prime Minister had hoped that bin Laden’s elimination would deal a “decisive blow” to al Qaeda and other terrorist groups”.

The telephonic talk came on a day when the US President raised questions about the possibility that “some people inside of government” in Pakistan may have been involved in providing support structure for the slain terrorist.

“We don’t know whether there might have been some people inside of government, people outside of government, and that’s something that we have to investigate and more importantly, the Pakistani government has to investigate,” he told the ‘CBS News’ in his first interview after bin Laden’s death.

“We think that there had to be some sort of support network for bin Laden inside of Pakistan. But we don’t know who or what that support network was,” Obama said.