Abu Jundal
lived in Beed, just about 395km east of Mumbai. But according to sources
in the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), he never considered himself to be an
Indian.
Alleged to be one of the conspirators of the 26/11 attack, Jundal, 36, was the sole breadwinner of his family, which included his parents and three sisters.
He did a two-year electrical course from Beed’s Industrial Training Institute before completing his graduation in arts.
“It was during his college years that Jundal became more fundamentalist. He then joined the banned organisation, Students Islamic Movement of India (Simi),” said Shiva Thakre, assistant police inspector, ATS, Aurangabad.
In 2006, Jundal fled to Pakistan via Bangladesh after the police caught an arms consignment in Aurangabad, which included 16 AK47 rifles, 3,200 live cartridges, 43 kilograms of RDX and 50 live grenades.
“Today his family is living in extreme poverty in Beed,” said Thakre. Neighbours said the family’s house at Kazi Darwaja, Hatti Khana, Dhanagar lane, had been locked for the past 15-20 days following a marriage.
Police sources said that after fleeing, Jundal wanted to destabilise the country, and to achieve his goal, he participated in several blasts, including the one at Pune’s German Bakery on February 13, 2010.
Alleged to be one of the conspirators of the 26/11 attack, Jundal, 36, was the sole breadwinner of his family, which included his parents and three sisters.
He did a two-year electrical course from Beed’s Industrial Training Institute before completing his graduation in arts.
“It was during his college years that Jundal became more fundamentalist. He then joined the banned organisation, Students Islamic Movement of India (Simi),” said Shiva Thakre, assistant police inspector, ATS, Aurangabad.
In 2006, Jundal fled to Pakistan via Bangladesh after the police caught an arms consignment in Aurangabad, which included 16 AK47 rifles, 3,200 live cartridges, 43 kilograms of RDX and 50 live grenades.
“Today his family is living in extreme poverty in Beed,” said Thakre. Neighbours said the family’s house at Kazi Darwaja, Hatti Khana, Dhanagar lane, had been locked for the past 15-20 days following a marriage.
Police sources said that after fleeing, Jundal wanted to destabilise the country, and to achieve his goal, he participated in several blasts, including the one at Pune’s German Bakery on February 13, 2010.
According to the ATS, Jundal planned the Pune blast 2008 along
with Indian Mujaheedin (IM) suspect 29-year-old Himayat Baig, who was
also the Maharashtra chief of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), and a coaccused
in the arms case Faiyaz Kagzi.
Baig allegedly went to Colombo where the three of them drew up the “diabolic design” to do further terrorist activities, the bakery blast charge sheet claimed.
The report also said that Baig received training about assembling explosive devices.
It was Kagzi and Jundal who gave money to Baig “for funding the purchase of explosive devices and the travel of indoctrinated Muslim youths desirous of undergoing terrorist training in Pakistan”, the charge sheet said.
Jundal, Baig, and Kagzi were friends and were members of Simi during college. “He indoctrinated Baig. After he fled the country in 2006, Baig too left Beed and settled in Udgir, Marathwada,” said an ATS official.
The only son of an insurance agent father, Jundal also seems to have acted as an informer of security agencies.
According to sources, he helped in the 2006 arms haul from
Aurangabad. But that was also the end of his association with security
agencies, as Jundal was not seen again till his arrest by the special
cell of Delhi police on June 21.
Baig allegedly went to Colombo where the three of them drew up the “diabolic design” to do further terrorist activities, the bakery blast charge sheet claimed.
The report also said that Baig received training about assembling explosive devices.
It was Kagzi and Jundal who gave money to Baig “for funding the purchase of explosive devices and the travel of indoctrinated Muslim youths desirous of undergoing terrorist training in Pakistan”, the charge sheet said.
Jundal, Baig, and Kagzi were friends and were members of Simi during college. “He indoctrinated Baig. After he fled the country in 2006, Baig too left Beed and settled in Udgir, Marathwada,” said an ATS official.
The only son of an insurance agent father, Jundal also seems to have acted as an informer of security agencies.
According to sources, he helped in the 2006 arms haul from
Aurangabad. But that was also the end of his association with security
agencies, as Jundal was not seen again till his arrest by the special
cell of Delhi police on June 21.
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