RAWALPINDI, Feb 29: The police team investigating the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto is reported to have submitted on Friday an ‘incomplete’ charge-sheet of the case in an anti-terrorist court, identifying the four arrested suspects as prime accused and five other people, including militia commander Baitullah Mehsud, as being behind the assassination plot.

The government had accused Baitullah Mehsud of having masterminded the attack on Ms Bhutto in Rawalpindi on Dec 27, but the militant commander had denied any involvement.

City Police Officer Saud Aziz has confirmed that the charge-sheet had been submitted in the court for further proceedings.

He said the four arrested people, Sher Zaman, Rafaqat, Husnain Gul and Aitzaz Shah, who had confessed to having been involved in the case and to their linking with Baitullah, had been identified as prime accused.