RAMPUR: Mohammad Faheem Ansari , an Indian national who was alleged to be a member of Lashkar-e-Taiba , who was recently acquitted in the 2008 Mumbai attacks case, and is now being tried for his role in the 2007 attack on CRPF camp in Rampur, visited Pakistan and obtained a passport there on fake papers, Manpreet Singh Vohra , then ambassador to Pakistan, told the court of additional district and sessions judge here.Vohra, who is now ambassador to Afghanistan, said he obtained this information with officials in Pakistan at that time. Public Prosecutor Dalwinder Singh told the court that Pakistan’s ISI had helped Ansari get the passport.Speaking with TOI, additional district government counsel Dalwinder Singh said, “Manpreet Singh Vohra had carried out the investigation into a Pakistani passport recovered from Faheem Ansari at the time of his arrest by the anti-terrorism squad (ATS) and the sleuths of the special task force on February 10, 2008. At that time, Vohra was the deputy high commissioner of India in Islamabad.”According to Singh, after the Mumbai attack, both India and Pakistan governments had exchanged the information through dossiers where it was revealed that Faheem Ansari had managed to get the Pakistani passport on fake identities. Ansari had been earlier accused of conducting reconnaissance for the Mumbai terror attacks of 2008 but was subsequently acquitted of those charges.“In his testimony before the court, Vohra said that the recovered Pakistani passport had Ansari’s photograph under the name of Hassan Hammad, a resident of Rawalpindi. During the investigation, Pakistani authorities told the Indian officials that Ansari visited Pakistan and used forged papers to obtain the passport,” Singh told TOI.According to the ADGC, Faheem Ansari had travelled to Pakistan on an Indian passport while he came back through Nepal. Sleuths of ATS had also recovered a pistol from his possession at the time of his arrest from the Rampur bus stand in February 2008.According to Dalwinder Singh, all the CRPF camp attack accused — Imran Shahzad, Mohammad Farooq (both Pakistan nationals) Shahabuddin alias Saba, Jang Bahadur, Mohammad Sharief, Gulab Khan, Mohammad Quasar and Faheem Ansari – were produced before the trial court under tight security. The hearing was carried out and the defence counsels appearing for the accuseds were also allowed to cross examine Manpreet Vohra . The next hearing of the case is on January 16.Seven CRPF jawans and a rickshaw puller were killed in the terror attack on the CRPF camp here on December 31, 2007. All the accused were arrested by ATS and UP police within 40 days of the attack. Three were arrested from Lucknow while five from Rampur, Including Faheem Ansari.