Abu Hamza Jundal, the Lashker-e-Taiba Operative and one of the key figures behind 2008 Mumbai Attacks, has threatened to go on indefinite fast if he is not released from Solitary confinement and allowed to interact with fellow prisoners.
In a letter, submitted via Arthur Road Jail Authorities, to the MCOCOA Court he has demanded to be treated like any other prisoner.
According to his Advocate Ejaz Naqvi, “Jundal wrote this letter to jail authorities on March 28 that if he is not allowed to mingle with other prisoners then he would go on hunger strike”.
The hearing on the letter is likely tomorrow.
Jundal is being tried for the 2006 arms haul case wherein the Maharashtra ATS team had seized 30 kg RDX, 10 AK-47 assault rifles and 3,200 bullets on May 8, 2006 from three persons after chasing a Tata Sumo and an Indica car on Chandwad-Manmad highway near Aurangabad.
The Indica was allegedly driven by Jundal, who managed to give police the slip at that time.
According to prosecution, Jundal then drove to Malegaon and handed over the vehicle to an acquaintance before escaping to Pakistan via Bangladesh on a fake passport in May 2006.
Jundal is also known as Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari  and was deported from Saudi Arabia on 25 June 2012 and is currently in the custody of Indian security agencies.
He was born in a village of Beed district in Maharashtra.  His father Syed Zakiuddin had worked as an insurance agent.  Syed Zakiuddin’s family consists of five sisters and one son, Zabiuddin. He  had studied in Urdu up to Class X in Georai and joined Industrial Training Institute (ITI), Beed.
Ansari moved to Pakistan after his college. He married in 2009 to a Pakistani woman and has a son in Pakistan. The Pakistani passport he used, showed him as a resident of Sheikhpura in Pakistan’s Punjab (Pakistan) province
Zabiuddin was the Hindi tutor and handler of the 10 terrorists allegedly responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks that claimed 165 lives. Zabiuddin is believed to be one of the four LeT men who had come to send off Ajmal Kasab and nine other terrorists fromKarachi a week prior they went to Mumbai