Abu Jundal wants to shift to Delhi from Mumbai jail

Suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Abu Jundal, an alleged mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, on Thursday told a Delhi court he should be shifted to the national Capital on completion of trial in an ongoing case in the western metropolis and the case should not be conducted through video-conferencing to enable him consult his lawyer.

Jundal, alias Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari, who is lodged in Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail, was produced before the court in the city through video-conferencing, where he requested the judge that he be shifted to Delhi for proceedings in the case pending in the national Capital. He told District Judge Amar Nath that since trial in the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case in Mumbai, in which he is also an accused, was nearing an end and he should be brought to Delhi after that so that he can consult his counsel MS Khan.

The court had last month allowed a plea of the NIA, seeking to conduct the proceedings in the case through video-conferencing after the agency apprehended threat to Jundal’s life. 

The proceedings in the case, in which NIA had chargesheeted Jundal for allegedly conspiring to carry out terror activities in India, have been stalled since May 2013 as Jundal was not produced before the court in the city.