India won’t share information on Abu Jundal with Pakistan

TOI

NEW DELHI: 28 June 2012: India will not share with Pakistan any information related to Syed Zabiuddin alias Abu Jundal who was arrested by the Delhi Police for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai carnage, sources in the home ministry said today.

 

Zaibuddin is being interrogated by law enforcement agencies and the ministry does not want its investigations hampered in any manner by sharing such information with Pakistan. The sources said that Zabiuddin, an Indian national, holds a Pakistani passport and two Pakistani identity cards. "This indicates Pakistan’s complicity," a source said. Zabiuddin, a key handler of 26/11 attackers, was arrested on June 21 on his arrival from Saudi Arabia.

 

Home minister P Chidambaram had yesterday said there was clearly Pakistani state support to the terrorists responsible for the 26/11 attack. His comments had evoked sharp reaction from Pakistan’s interior ministry chief Rehman Malik who after rejecting Chidambaram’s assertion of "state support" to the terrorists said that ISI was a target of "propaganda campaign".

 

Chidambaram had stated that the Indian security agencies have been tracking Jundal, Lashkar-e-Taiba operative, for nearly a year and the information was kept a "well guarded secret".

 

Meanwhile, The National Investigation Agency (NIA) today moved a Delhi court for the custody of the alleged 26/11 handler Abu Jundal, who is currently being interrogated by the Special Cell of Delhi Police.

 

The NIA moved the court of chief metropolitan magistrate Vinod Yadav for the custody of Jundal alias Saiyyad Jaibuddin in an FIR lodged on June 8, 2012 in a terrorism case.

 

The NIA had registered the FIR against Jundal and one another person on the basis of a source information that they were in India and were amassing explosive substances like ammonium nitrate for carrying out blasts in the country.

 

The agency submitted to the court an order issued this morning by a designated NIA court, which said Jundal’s custody be handed over to it for interrogation.

 

It sought direction from the court for his production before the designated NIA court on July 6.

 

The CMM has put up the application for hearing on July 4. Jundal allegedly had trained the ten Pakistani terrorists who had attacked Mumbai on November 26, 2008, besides teaching them basic Hindi and apprising them of Mumbai’s topography.

 

Earlier during the day, the NIA also lodged an FIR against Jundal and another suspect Fayag Kagazi, for hatching the 26/11 attacks conspiracy and aiding the Pakistan-trained terrorists.