Investigation
agencies have got specific leads on another terror operative from Beed
who is currently in Saudi Arabia. Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative
Zabihuddin Ansari, alias Abu Jundal, has reportedly spilled the beans on
Fayyaz Kagzi, who is wanted in the Pune German Bakery blast and
Aurangabad arms haul cases. Like Kagzi, Jundal is also wanted in those
cases.
Jundal also hails from Beed district and was deported
from Saudi Arabia. Investigators have got detailed leads on Kagzi’s life
in Saudi Arabia from Jundal. In fact, while terror suspect Fasih
Mahmood has been detained in Saudi Arabia, there are indications that
Kagzi might have been located. The Delhi police’s special cell is now
focusing on Kagzi’s role and position in the Indian Mujahideen (IM) hierarchy.
Jundal,
during interrogations, has told police that he and Kagzi conducted a
meeting in Colombo in March 2010 to which Himayat Mirza Baig, who also
hails from Beed, was summoned. Baig is being tried for his alleged role
in the 2010 Pune German Bakery blast case. During their meeting, the
Pune blast chargesheet says, Jundal and Kagzi gave money to Baig to buy
explosive devices and pay for indoctrinated youths to travel to Pakistan
for terror training. In the chargesheet, Kagzi has been listed as wanted accused 5 while Ansari (Jundal) is wanted accused 6.
Kagzi
hails from Feroz Shah Nagar, New Shahenshai Nagar, near Aqsa mosque in
Beed. It is learnt that Kagzi and Jundal had formed a group of around 10
youths, who were selected from and around Beed to wage terror strikes.
The basic strategy of the banned Simi outfit was to ask youths not to
drink, smoke and eve-tease girls and to fight “the wrongdoers”. A
section of Simi members became extremists.
On
June 8, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) registered an FIR
against Jundal and Kagzi for being part of a terror organization. The
FIR was based on information that Kagzi and Jundal were trying to
organize explosives for certain LeT and IM operatives in India for
attacks in Delhi and Mumbai. Both Jundal and Kagzi have been charged
under sections 18 and 20 (for being part of a terror organization) of
the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA). The FIR does not mention
the conspiracy in detail nor does it identify
the LeT and IM operatives who were supposed to be given the explosives.
Given the timing of the FIR, sources said it may have been filed to
ensure the NIA got Jundal’s custody so it could investigate the larger
conspiracy behind the 26/11 attacks. The NIA is probing the US-born
jihadi David Coleman Headley’s involvement in the strike. The second
purpose, sources said, could be to strengthen India’s case for
deportation when Jundal was living in Saudi Arabia on a Pakistani
passport.
Kagzi faces charges in the Aurangabad arms haul and Pune German Bakery blast cases, as also the new case registered by the NIA for hatching the 26/11 attacks conspiracy and aiding the Pakistantrained terrorists. In 2008, Kagzi had trained Baig to organize recruits and make bombs in a camp in the Sri Lankan capital for three weeks, said a police source.
The Times of India, June 30, 2012
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