இந்த தாக்குதல் சம்பவத்தின் 10ம் ஆண்டு நினைவு தினம் இன்று அனுசரிக்கப்படுகிறது. இதையொட்டி மும்பை போலீஸ் ஜிம்கானா பகுதியில் உள்ள நினைவிடத்தில் இன்று அஞ்சலி நிகழ்ச்சி நடைபெற்றது. மும்பை தாக்குதலில் உயிரிழந்தவர்களுக்கு மகாராஷ்டிர ஆளுநர் வித்யாசாகர் ராவ், முதல்வர் தேவேந்திர பட்னாவிஸ் மற்றும் பல்வேறு அரசியல் தலைவர்கள் மற்றும் அதிகாரிகள் அஞ்சலி செலுத்தினர்.

இந்நிலையில், மும்பை தாக்குதலில் தொடர்புடைய குற்றவாளிகள் குறித்து துப்பு கொடுத்தால் 5 மில்லியன் டாலர் (இந்திய ரூபாய் மதிப்பில் 35 கோடி) வெகுமதி வழங்கப்படும் என அமெரிக்கா அறிவித்துள்ளது.

மும்பை தாக்குதலில் ஈடுபட்டவர்கள், தாக்குதலுக்கு சதி செய்தவர்கள் மற்றும் உதவியவர்கள் எந்த நாட்டில் இருந்தாலும் அவர்கள் குறித்து தகவல் தெரிவித்தால் இந்த வெகுமதி வழங்கப்படும் என அமெரிக்க வெளியுறவுத்துறை மந்திரி மைக் பாம்பியோ கூறியுள்ளார்.

“Ten years after the Mumbai terror attacks, thoughts with families and individuals who suffered. We salute those from the police and security forces who made the supreme sacrifice that day.

“India remains honor-bound to securing justice, and defeating terrorism,” the President said in a tweet.

Describing the attacks as “gruesome”, Modi said: “Tributes to those who lost their lives… Our solidarity with the bereaved families. A grateful nation bows to our brave police and security forces who valiantly fought the terrorists during the Mumbai attacks.”

Ten heavily-armed terrorists sneaked in through the Arabian Sea, attacked multiple locations within a small geographical area, killing 166 persons — including Indian security personnel and 26 foreign nationals — and left another 300 injured, besides inflicting huge damage to public and private properties.

The US State Department issued a strong-worded statement on Sunday on the eve of the anniversary asking Pakistan to impose sanctions on all those responsible and offering fresh reward for up to $5 million for information on those involved in the attack.

The reward offered under the State Department’s Rewards for Justice (RFJ) Programme is for “any individual who committed, conspired to commit, or aided or abetted in the execution” of the attack that killed 166 people, a Department media note said on Sunday.

This is the third RFJ bounty from the State Department on terrorists involved in the Mumbai attack carried out by the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) as it casts a wider net beyond its leaders.

In 2012, the Department put a bounty of $10 million on LeT founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed and $2 million on his deputy, Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki.

The rewards have not worked so far and Saeed operates openly in Pakistan, leaving the effectiveness of the latest steps open to question.

Under international pressure, the Pakistani Punjab government put him under house arrest in January in 2017 but a review board headed by a Lahore High Court judge ordered his release in November that year.

Saeed has also been declared an international terrorist by the UN Security Council.

Before the Mumbai attack, the US had designated the LeT as a terrorist organization in 2001 and imposed sanctions on it and the UN Security Council followed suit in 2005.

The RFJ website, which said the “reward offer extends to any individual who bears responsibility for this act of terror”, mentioned four persons, who, it said, have been indicted by a US federal court.

They are Sajid Mir, Major Iqbal, Abu Qahafa and Mazhar Iqbal (alias Abu al-Qama).

The RJF website said that Mir was the handler for Pakistani-American terrorist David Coleman Headley, who was sent by the LeT on a spying mission to India to prepare for the attacks.

Ten heavily-armed terrorists sneaked in through the Arabian Sea and attacked multiple locations within a small geographical area, killing 166 persons — including Indian security personnel and 26 foreign nationals — and left another 300 injured, besides inflicting huge damage to public and private properties.

Headley, whose original name was Daood Sayed Gilani, is serving a 35-year prison sentence in the US for his role in the Mumbai attack and in a terrorist conspiracy against a Danish newspaper.