Unable to get 26/11 handler Jundal's custody, NIA tells court

The agency informed Special NIA Judge H S Sharma that it could not manage to secure the accused' custody which was given to Delhi Police's Special Cell for further 15 days yesterday by Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yadav

The NIA told the judge that it will seek the custody of Jundal alias Syed Zabiuddin from CMM on July 20 when the police remand of the terrorist comes to an end with the Delhi Police.

The NIA court had issued production warrant against Jundal in a case lodged on June 8 by the agency against him and other LeT members on the orders of the Ministry of Home Affairs about the alleged conspiracy hatched by them for waging war against India.

The NIA's plea for Jundal's custody is still pending in the court of CMM.

The agency had said the case was registered on credible information that a native of Juna Bazar at Beed in Maharashtra was making efforts to collect explosives including ammonium nitrate as per a plot by LeT members like Jundal, Fayaz Kagzi and others for organising terror strikes across the country and not limited to Delhi and Mumbai alone.

This case was registered after the Centre had suo motu authorised the NIA to investigate the matter.

Earlier, the NIA had told the CMM that the investigation being conducted in other matters by various probe agencies was in relation to the offences which stood committed in the past, whereas the matter investigated by it is a prospective one in which it is engaged in averting terror strike by Jundal and his associates in various parts of India.(MORE)