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NEW DELHI: Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) may be plotting another strike against India, Syed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal, one of the handlers of the 26/11 terrorists, is said to have told interrogators during initial questioning.
Jundal had shifted his base to Saudi Arabia and at his handlers' behest was engaged in "talent spotting" over phone for the new plot, sources said, adding that he had also been assigned the task of providing legal aid to the Lashkar and Indian Mujahideen terrorists arrested in India.
LeT is busy creating new modules because of a crackdown in Pakistan.
A team probing the September 19, 2010 Jama Masjid attack, led by DCP Sanjeev Yadav and ACP Ashok Chand, had found that Indian Mujahideen boss Ahmad Zarar Siddi Bappa alias Shahrukh used to make frequent calls to Saudi Arabia. "We will question him on whether Shahrukh used to call him as well from India," said a source.
The sources claimed that Jundal and Lashkar's direct link with the Indian Mujahideen (IM) and the Jama Masjid attack was "proved" by the fact that he was a friend of Mohammad Adil alias Ajmal, a Pakistani national arrested by the special cell in November, 2011 along with 12 IM members from a Meer Vihar factory.
Adil, who had fired on Taiwanese tourists in the Jama Masjid attack, was sent to India by Jundal to help Shahrukh. Delhi Police had got a non-bailable warrant issued against Jundal after they raided IM's Meer Vihar factory last year.
Intelligence agencies are questioning Jundal about Lashkar bases in Pakistan and other countries, hideouts, main modules and sleeper cells in India.
He will also be interrogated about an IB input that several LeT terrorists had entered India separately after the 26/11 strikes.
"Jundal knows the Bhatkal brothers Riyaz and Iqbal, bosses of Indian Mujahideen based in Karachi very well. He claims that the Bhatkal brothers used to come to joint meetings of Lashkar and IM. For the Jama Masjid attack, the Bhatkal brothers asked Jundal to provide a man, an expert in firing," another source said.
The police also believe that Jundal met Shahrukh whenever the latter visited Pakistan.
Birth of a terrorist Zabihuddin 'Zaby' Ansari alias Abu Jundal was born on Nov 31, 1980 in a village in Maharashtra's Beed district. He studied in Urdu up to Class X and joined Indian Technical Institute, Beed. He went to Pak for terror training in mid-2000s and recruited cadres for IM and LeT. He visited Lanka, Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia
Calling the shots Jundal is accused of being the lone Indian in the LeT's control room in Karachi from where the 26/11 attackers were guided. Police say that Jundal instructed terrorists Babar Imran and Nasir, who attacked Nariman House (Chabad House) in Colaba
Aurangabad arms haul On May 6, 2006, the M'rashtra police chased two vehicles on the Manmad-Chandvad highway and stopped one of them in Aurangabad. Three men were held with RDX and AK-47s. However, Jundal escaped in the second car
Case file Accused in 26/11, Aurangabad arms haul, German Bakery blast, Ahmedabad serial blasts and foiled Surat blasts, and forgery case
Jundal had shifted his base to Saudi Arabia and at his handlers' behest was engaged in "talent spotting" over phone for the new plot, sources said, adding that he had also been assigned the task of providing legal aid to the Lashkar and Indian Mujahideen terrorists arrested in India.
LeT is busy creating new modules because of a crackdown in Pakistan.
A team probing the September 19, 2010 Jama Masjid attack, led by DCP Sanjeev Yadav and ACP Ashok Chand, had found that Indian Mujahideen boss Ahmad Zarar Siddi Bappa alias Shahrukh used to make frequent calls to Saudi Arabia. "We will question him on whether Shahrukh used to call him as well from India," said a source.
The sources claimed that Jundal and Lashkar's direct link with the Indian Mujahideen (IM) and the Jama Masjid attack was "proved" by the fact that he was a friend of Mohammad Adil alias Ajmal, a Pakistani national arrested by the special cell in November, 2011 along with 12 IM members from a Meer Vihar factory.
Adil, who had fired on Taiwanese tourists in the Jama Masjid attack, was sent to India by Jundal to help Shahrukh. Delhi Police had got a non-bailable warrant issued against Jundal after they raided IM's Meer Vihar factory last year.
Intelligence agencies are questioning Jundal about Lashkar bases in Pakistan and other countries, hideouts, main modules and sleeper cells in India.
He will also be interrogated about an IB input that several LeT terrorists had entered India separately after the 26/11 strikes.
"Jundal knows the Bhatkal brothers Riyaz and Iqbal, bosses of Indian Mujahideen based in Karachi very well. He claims that the Bhatkal brothers used to come to joint meetings of Lashkar and IM. For the Jama Masjid attack, the Bhatkal brothers asked Jundal to provide a man, an expert in firing," another source said.
The police also believe that Jundal met Shahrukh whenever the latter visited Pakistan.
Birth of a terrorist Zabihuddin 'Zaby' Ansari alias Abu Jundal was born on Nov 31, 1980 in a village in Maharashtra's Beed district. He studied in Urdu up to Class X and joined Indian Technical Institute, Beed. He went to Pak for terror training in mid-2000s and recruited cadres for IM and LeT. He visited Lanka, Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia
Calling the shots Jundal is accused of being the lone Indian in the LeT's control room in Karachi from where the 26/11 attackers were guided. Police say that Jundal instructed terrorists Babar Imran and Nasir, who attacked Nariman House (Chabad House) in Colaba
Aurangabad arms haul On May 6, 2006, the M'rashtra police chased two vehicles on the Manmad-Chandvad highway and stopped one of them in Aurangabad. Three men were held with RDX and AK-47s. However, Jundal escaped in the second car
Case file Accused in 26/11, Aurangabad arms haul, German Bakery blast, Ahmedabad serial blasts and foiled Surat blasts, and forgery case
