A crime branch team on Monday was dispatched to Delhi with a production warrant to seek the custody of Saeed Zabiuddin Jabi, alias Abu Jundal, alias Jabi Ansari, who was arrested by the Delhi police special cell on Monday morning.
Jundal is a wanted accused in the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case and is suspected to be one of the six handlers that gave instructions to the attackers of 26/11 terror raids from a control room in Pakistan. Crime branch officers said that he will face separate trials in the two cases and Ajmal Kasab will be asked to identify him as he was one of the four persons who saw them off from Pakistan shore.
“We have sent a team with the production warrant seeking his custody in the 26/11 terror raids. He is also a wanted accused in the Aurangabad arms haul case that was investigated by the Anti-terrorism Squad,” said Himanshu Roy, joint commissioner of police, crime.
According to a senior officer, Jundal, originally from Gevrai Taluka of Beed district in Maharashtra is a prize catch who can give information on the exact roles of people from Pakistan army, the ISI and the LeT operatives who conspired and participated in the attack.
“In a plea filed by Kasab under section 229 of the Criminal Procedure Code he had flashed out the role of Jundal. He had said that Jundal, Abu Hamza, Abu Kafa and LeT chief Zaki-Ur-Rahman Lakhvi had seen them off from Pakistan for the attack. He had said that both Jundal and Lakhvi had also imparted them training in terror acts,” he said.
The officer said that Jundal had trained the 10 terrorists who executed the attacks in speaking Hindi. “It was necessary for the terrorists to be able to speak Hindi as they were carrying identification cards as that of Indian students and the language would help them dodge the Indian authorities if intercepted enroute. Jundal was one of the six persons who were giving instructions to the terrorists from the control room in Hindi. It was clear at that time there would be some local Indian who knew words like ‘prashasan’ and ‘yeh toh sirf trailer hai picture abhi baki hai’. The conversations were intercepted but Pakistan had refused to give the voice samples. Now that Jundal has been arrested we will take his voice samples and match them with the conversations,” he said.