Abu Jundal and others found guilty in 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case.
LeT operative and 26/11 key plotter Abu Jundal, including 11 others were on Thursday convicted by the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court in the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case.
The court acquitted eight others in the case while trial of two accused have been separated. Special MCOCA Judge Shrikant Anekar delivered the verdict after final arguments in the case concluded recently following a ten-year-long wait.
The court accepted prosecution's case that the aim of the convicted accused was to create terror in the minds of people and to eliminate public leaders like then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Hindu leader Pravin Togadia.
On May 8, 2006, a Maharashtra ATS team chased a Tata Sumo and an Indica car on Chandwad-Manmad highway near Aurangabad and arrested three terror suspects and seized 30kg of RDX, 10 AK-47 assault rifles and 3,200 bullets.
The Indica, allegedly driven by Jundal, managed to give police the slip. Jundal, who hails from Beed district of Maharashtra, drove to Malegaon and a few days later he escaped to Bangladesh from where he fled to Pakistan, according to the state police.
He was deported to India from Saudi Arabia in 2012.
The special court here framed charges against the 22 arrested accused in August 2013. During the trial, the prosecution examined 100 witnesses while defence lawyers examined 16.
The trial was stayed by the Supreme Court for a while after one of the accused challenged constitutional validity of certain provisions of MCOCA. The stay was vacated in 2009.
In August last year, the Bombay High Court directed the lower court to expedite the trial.
Charges against Jundal
120 (B) IPC: Hatching conspiracy
121 r/w 120IPC: Waging war against country in conspiracy
122 IPC: Collecting arms with intension of waging war against nation
302 IPC: Murder
307 IPC: Attempt to murder
333 IPC: Voluntarily causing grievous hurt to deter public servant from his duty
342 IPC: Wrongful confinement
343 IPC: Wrongful confinement for more than three days
364 IPC: Abduction
419 IPC: Cheating by personation for committing forgery
471: Using forged document as a genuine one
436 IPC: Mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to destroy house
109 IPC: Punishment for abetment of crime.
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