New Delhi: The Mumbai Police has moved Tis Hazari court seeking the custody of Abu Jundal, he man who allegedly trained the 26/11 terrorists and taught them Hindi. The court has asked Delhi Police to file a reply by June 27. Kasab's testimony to Mumbai police had named Jundal for seeing off the 10 attackers at Pakistan shore. Abu Hamza, Abu Qaafa and Lakhvi were the others.
Sources in the Mumbai Crime Branch say that he will be confronted with 26/11 convict Ajmal Kasab and his testimony once he is brought to Mumbai. The Mumbai Crime Branch team arrived in Delhi on Tuesday to interrogate Jundal.
The Crime Branch of Mumbai Police approached the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Vinod Yadav for Jundal's custody in connection with various cases of murder, attempt to murder and other offences under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Arms Act, which are being probed by Crime Investigation Department (CID), Mumbai.
The Mumbai Police's application was accompanied by a request letter issued by a Mumbai court for producing 30-year-old Jundal before it. "In view of letter of Additional CMM 37th Court, Mumbai, it is humbly prayed that direction be kindly issued to produce the accused person (Abu Jundal) before it," the Mumbai Police said in its application.
Jundal alias Sayyed Zaibuddin was arrested by the Special Cell of Delhi Police from Indira Gandhi International Airport and was produced before the CMM's court on June 21.
Sources say police from other states as well as the NIA too is likely to question him over the next few days. They are likely to cross question him about what David Coleman Headley had told them during questioning. Jundal will be questioned about his ties with every attack in the past six years, including the Jama Masjid, Chinnaswamy and German Bakery blast.
Sources say that the operation to nab Jundal was going on for the last several months and he was detained in Saudi Arabia in the first week of June. A team of Delhi Police and IB officials travelled to Saudi Arabia to bring him back to India.
Sources said that Indian agencies were working towards the deportation of another 26/11 conspirator but that didn't materialise. They were only able to get Abu Jundal.
Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist Abu Jundal, who is in Delhi Police's custody, has confessed his active role in the Mumbai attacks, saying that Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed was present in the Karachi control room when the 26/11 masterminds choreographed the carnage. He has confessed to working under the guidance of Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed. Sources say Jundal was allegedly involved in training Ajmal Kasab and reportedly came up to the Indian border in the same boat as Kasab and the other 26/11 terrorists.
During the interrogation, Abu Jundal has admitted to handling the attack on Nariman House during 26/11, IB sources told CNN-IBN. He has admitted that he was in the Karachi control room under the guidance of Saeed.
CNN-IBN has accessed details of Jundal's confession to the police. Jundal allegedly told the police that he was the one who trained the 10 terrorists.
Delhi Police will keep Abu Jundal in custody till July 5.
Reacting to the recent developments, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna said, "Pakistan must address our terror concerns. I hope they pursue the 26/11 case and also look at the case against Hafiz Saeed."
As per the details, Jundal was someone who was actually involved in guiding and directing the terrorists at every step during the Mumbai attack.
Jundal was involved in a blast in Ahmedabad in 2006 and the Aurangabad arms haul the same year. He was named in the 26/11 chargesheet and was considered one of the most wanted.
After the Aurangabad arms haul, Abu Jundal fled to Pakistan. There he became closely involved with the activities of the LeT and eventually started working towards plotting the 26/11 attacks. The Mumbai crime branch which is probing the attack will now be taking a voice sample to further confirm that he indeed was one of the handlers.
Abu Jundal was an important LeT operative handling the groups operations in India. His arrest will be crucial not only for taking investigations into the Mumbai attacks forward but also for our agencies to find out the current structure, reach and plans of Pakistan-based terror groups. What they will also focus on is to find out what he was doing in Saudi Arabia for the last several months.
(With additional information from PTI)
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