26/11 key handler Abu Jindal Arrested
Mumbai. Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Hamza alias Abu Jundal, a key accused of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack has been arrested by the Delhi Police four days ago.
30-year-old AZabiuddin with another alias Riyasat Ali is an Indian national who is said to have been issuing directions from a ‘control room’ in Pakistan to 10 terrorists who went on a rampage in Mumbai in November, 2008 killing 166 persons.
Zabiuddin, who was deported from Saudi Arabia on India’s request, was arrested on his arrival at the Indira Gandhi International Airport by Delhi Police on June 21, police said.
He was remanded to police custody for 15 days by a Delhi court the same day.
Zabiuddin had taught Hindi to the 10 Lashker-e-Taiba terrorists that carried out the Mumbai attacks. A resident of Georai area of Beed district in Maharashtra, he had given a slip to the Mumbai Police when an arms consignment in Aurungabad was seized in 2006 and left for Pakistan.
Special Public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam informed Metropolitan Magistrate ACMM Rathod that Hamza was a part of the criminal conspiracy hatched in Pakistan for the terror attack in which 166 people were killed.
According to Nikam, Abu taught Hindi to the 10 Pakistani attackers, of whom nine were killed in the combined security forces’ operation lasting 60 hours.
The lone survivor was Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, who has been sentenced to death by Indian courts.
Nikam added that Abu was handling the group from Karachi during the attack and Kasab had confessed to this in his statement before a Mumbai magistrate.
In the confession recorded by Special Judge M.L. Tahaliyani July 20-22, 2009, Kasab said that Abu was an Indian who remained in telephonic contact with the militant group during the attack at Chabad House. Kasab Jan 22, 2010 retracted from the confessional statement.
Jindal is an electrician by profession and hails from Beed district in Maharashtra, police said.
