Abu Jundal found guilty in 2006 arms haul case

TIL Desk/National/Mumbai-Lashkar-e-Tayiba man Abu Jundal, who’s also an accused in the 26/11 case, pronounced guilty by the MCOCA court in Mumbai in the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case.

On May 8, 2006, a Maharashtra ATS team chased a Tata Sumo and an Indica car on Chandwad-Manmad highway near Aurangabad and arrested three terror suspects and seized 30kg of RDX, 10 AK-47 assault rifles and 3,200 bullets.

The Indica, allegedly driven by Jundal, managed to give police the slip. Jundal, who hails from Beed district of Maharashtra, drove to Malegaon and a few days later he escaped to Bangladesh from where he fled to Pakistan, according to the state police. He was deported to India from Saudi Arabia in 2012.