Dinesh Kamath's news item 'Abu Jundal to be shifted to Taloja jail?' that was published in Newsband

Abu Jundal to be shifted to Taloja jail?

By Dinesh Kamath

NAVI MUMBAI: The suspected LeT operative and key plotter of 26/11 terror strikes Abu Jundal may get shifted from Arthur Road jail to Taloja jail in Navi Mumbai. This information was passed on by the Arthur Road Jail officials to the court. The final decision will be taken in couple of days.

Jundal has been tried by the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act (MCOCA) court in connection with the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case. Jundal was subjected to solitary confinement and hence Jundal had threatened to go on a hunger strike. He told the prison authorities that solitary confinement, where 26/11 attacker Ajmal Qasab was held before his hanging, was making him lose his mental balance. He had apparently told them that the terrorist was tormenting him in his dreams.

Jundal is one of the 22 accused in the arms haul case and while he was driving an Indica car on Chandwad-Manmad higway near Aurangabad, the Maharashtra Anti Terrorists Squad team had spotted him and after giving a chase had managed to seize 30 kg RDX, 10 AK-47 assault rifles and 3,200 bullets on May 8, 2006 from three persons. Jundal, however, had managed to escape that time. He had then escaped to Pakistan.

After the terror attacks on Mumbai, Jundal allegedly escaped from Pakistan to Saudi Arabia, and was deported to India in June last year after rounds of negotiation with the Saudi authorities.