Charge sheet filed against Abu Jundal

The Delhi Police charge sheet against Abu Jundal, a key handler of 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, accuses him of being involved in terror activities across India to avenge atrocities against Muslims, particularly those committed during 2002 Gujarat riots. 

 The charge sheet filed by the special cell says that the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat motivated Jundal into joining the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group which radicalised and indoctrinated him into Jihadi philosophy.

According to the charge sheet, filed in the court of chief metropolitan magistrate, Vidya Prakash, Jundal disclosed that he along with LeT chief Zaki-ur-Rehman alias Lakhvi monitored the 26/11 attacks from a control room in Karachi.

The charge sheet also names as suspect Fasih Mohammad, who is accused of conspiracy in bomb blasts in Bangalore and Delhi.

Fasih, who hails from Darbhanga district in Bihar, is presently in detention in Saudi Arabia. Besides him, the charge sheet names Iqbal and Riyaz Bhatkal and 17 others as suspects.

Jundal said 10 persons had left for Mumbai in September 2008 as well but the boat in which they were travelling broke down and they returned to Karachi .

On November 23, 2008, the ten terrorists again left for Mumbai in a boat named Al Hussainy driven by one Dara who returned to Karachi after dropping them at Mumbai.

Jundal had trained 10 terrorists, including Ajmal Kasab who perpetrated the 2008 Mumbai attack at Muzaffarabad for 10 days before the incident. He taught them Hindi and local languages spoken in Mumbai.

The ten terrorists who had executed the attack are Abu Akasha, Abu Umar, Ismail, Ajmal Kasab (lone surviving 26/11 terrorist), Abdul Rahman Big, Abdul Rahman Small, Abu Fahadulla, Musab, Umer and Ali.