New Delhi: One of India's most wanted terrorists Syed Abdul Karim alias Tunda was arrested on Saturday by the Delhi Police and brought to India.
Abdul Karim Tunda, a top 'bomber' of the Lashkar-e-Toiba, is a resident of Pilakhuwa area in Western Uttar Pradesh. He came to be known as 'Tunda' after losing his left arm in a bomb-making process.
Besides being an expert in bomb making, Tunda had a major hand in spreading LeT's network outside Jammu and Kashmir.
Before joining the ranks of the terror outfit, he ran a homoeopathic shop in the early 1980's.
The sources say that though he was not directly involved in perpetrating bombings after 1998, he acted as mentor for a younger generation of Lashkar operatives, financing and organising operations across India.
He was one of the co-founders of Jehadi movement in India. Sources say his name was in the dossier sent by the government post 26/11 Mumbai attacks along with Dawood Ibrahim, Hafeez Saeed and Maulana Masood Azhar.
70-year-old Tunda masterminded many North India bombings from 1996 to 1998. He is wanted for 33 criminal cases and 40 blasts. Tunda is a suspect in Delhi, Panipat, Sonepat and Ludhiana blasts.
Post 1997, Tunda shuttled between Karachi, Kenya and West Asia. He travelled from Pakistan to Bangladesh over the past decade.
(With additional inputs from PTI)
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