The Indian special court hearing the Mumbai massacre case Tuesday issued non-bailable arrest warrants against 22 suspects, including Pakistan-based Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafeez Saeed and banned militant outfit Lashkar-e-Toibahead Zaki-ur-Rehman Laqvi, for their alleged involvement in last November's terror attacks, a senior Indian Home Ministry official said.

"Indian Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam urged the court to issue arrest warrants against the accused after providing their names and addresses. The special court accepted the request and asked the police to take help of the Interpol to carry out the warrants," the official said, on condition of anonymity.

He expresses his hope that all the accused, including the alleged mastermind Saeed, would soon be produced before the court.

"We will ask the Interpol to help us nab them from Pakistan," he said.

India is already trying the only gunman caught alive in the Mumbai attacks, Mohammed Ajmal Amir alias Kasab, and has charged him with 302 crimes, including waging war against the state.

Kasab is said to have confessed that Saeed masterminded the attacks and the plan was hatched on Pakistani soil, a claim Islamabad partially admitted.

India has also expressed its dissatisfaction over Saeed's release by a Lahore court recently.

Source: Xinhua