Security Agencies have arrested a key mastermind of 26/11 Mumbai attacks, Sayed Zabiuddin alias Abu Hamza. He allegedly taught Hindi to 10 Terrorist who attacked Mumbai in 2008 killing 166 people.
He was arrested from Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI) earlier last week. The 30-year-old Ansari alias Abu Jindal, who hails from Georai area of Beed district in Maharashtra, was arrested on June 21 when he arrived in India from a Gulf country, official sources said on Monday.
Hamza, alias Sayeed Zabi ud Deen, is believed to be one of the key handlers of the terrorists involved in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
Hamza was produced before a court here June 21 and was sent for 15 days of police custody. He was said to be in Pakistan when the attacks took place in 2008, a police official said. A total of 166 people had died in the attacks.
India had also secured an Interpol Red Corner notice against him in which he was accused of crimes involving the use of weapons, explosives and terrorism.
With his arrest, the mysterious voice recorded during the conversation between 10 Lashker terrorists and their handlers in Pakistan has been identified, the sources said.
According to the officials associated with the probe, Ansari had told Lashker terrorists carrying out attack in Nariman House to convey to the media that the “attack was a trailer and the entire movie was yet to come”.
The voice was that of Ansari and after this his activities were traced before he was finally nabbed in a Gulf country, according to officials.
In the intercepted tapes, Ansari was also heard using typical Hindi words like “prashasan” (government) and was directing the terrorists to conceal their Pakistani identity and identify themselves from Deccan Mujahideen hailing from Toli Chowk in Hyderabad.
His presence was also stated by Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist arrested during the Mumbai attack, in his deposition before a special court. He told the court that one person by the name of Abu Jindal had tutored 10 terrorists on how to speak Hindi.
Missing since 2005, Ansari, who had undergone training at Indian Technical Institute in Beed, had a sudden rise in the ranks of Lashker-e-Taiba after he was indoctrinate by banned SIMI post Gujarat riots in 2002.
The Central security agencies had quizzed many arrested terrorists to study the case of Ansari during which it came to light that he had been operating out of terror camps in Karachi and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and was a key figure in the terror