The NIA said it was making the plea to get the custody of Jundal alias Syed Zaibuddin from the Delhi Police as it had registered a case on June 8 on the orders of the Ministry of Home Affairs about the alleged conspiracy hatched by the deported terrorist and others to wage war against India.
The agency said the case was registered on credible information that a native of Juna Bazar at Beed in Maharashtra was making efforts to collect explosives including ammonium nitrate as per a plot by LeT members like Zaibuddin Ansari, Fayaz Kagzi and others for organising terror strikes across India and not limited to Delhi and Mumbai alone.
While Delhi Police opposed the handing over of Jundal's custody to NIA contending that he has been jointly interrogated by them and the NIA, the federal agency's plea to the court said it "wants more information" as the Centre has suo motu authorised it to investigate the case registered on June 8.
NIA's counsel Ahmed Khan submitted to Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vinod Yaadav that the probe agency had not interrogated Jundal in relation to the June 8 FIR and that he was quizzed in the custody of Delhi police in connection with the case relating to the larger conspiracy in the Mumbai terror attack of 2008 involving US national David Coleman Headley. (More)
