A Delhi court on Friday framed charges against Lashkar-E-Taiba (LeT) operative Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal who was part of the terrorist outfit’s control room in Karachi during the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
Ansari was deported from Saudi Arabia in 2012, where he had fled to after the Mumbai attacks.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) had registered a case against Ansari for conspiring to organise terrorist activities in various parts of India and for “recruiting Muslim youths for jihad.”
“After 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai, Ansari with senior functionaries of the LeT hatched a conspiracy in Pakistan in 2010 to recruit youngsters from India for terrorist activities and to promote enmity between different groups on the basis of religion. He opened Facebook accounts under different names to avoid getting detected by security agencies in India and posted inflammatory posts with intention to arouse hatred against non-Muslims in the mind of Muslim men,” an NIA statement said.
