The government has given its sanction to chargesheet nine people including Pakistani-American terrorist David Headley, LeT founder Hafiz Saeed and two ISI officers for plotting terror attacks in India, including the 26/11 terror strikes in Mumbai.

Besides Headley and Saeed, the Home Ministry gave sanction to National Investigation Agency to prosecute 26/11 attacks mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Headley's accomplice and Pakistani-Canadian Tahawwur Rana and al-Qaeda operative Illyas Kashmiri.

Sajid Malik, handler of Headley, and Abdul Rehman Hashmi will also be named in the chargesheet besides two officers, Major Iqbal and Major Samir Ali, believed to be working for Pakistan 's ISI. The sanction of prosecution against the nine was accorded after a legal opinion of the Law Ministry was obtained.

They will be named in the chargesheet for waging war against the country under the Indian Penal Code and relevant sections of Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.

Headley and Rana are at present in the custody of US authorities and NIA has only got a limited access to Headley who had entered into plea bargain with US authorities to escape harsh sentence.

Barring Headley and Rana, NIA has secured an Interpol Red Corner Notice against all the seven accused including Saeed and Lakhvi who is said to be in a Pakistani jail, facing trial for conspiring the 26/11 attack.