Kasab's Hindi tutor, an LeT terrorist, killed in Jammu

MUMBAI/JAMMU: Top Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) commander Abu Jundal was gunned down in an encounter in Jammu on Friday. The Mumbai Crime Branch is in
touch with Jammu cops and trying to get Jundal's photograph to establish if he is the same militant who had taught Hindi to the 10 terrorists who entered Mumbai last November and killed 163 people.

Jammu police officers said they received information about the presence of a group of LeT terrorists in the Batoi forest in Mahore, 120 kms from Jammu. Security forces and local policemen launched a joint combing operation and an encounter ensued; an AK-47, a magazine and some ammunition were recovered from the site and self-styled LeT commander Jundal alias Mohammad Avais (going by the code name of Zuman in PoK) was killed.

Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab on July 20 told the trial court that one Abu Jundal was part of the LeT group that had tutored them; he had described Jundal as his Hindi teacher. "Woh hamein Hindi sikhathe the,'' Kasab had told the court and added that Jundal was an Indian.

But Jundal was not mentioned in the 26/11 chargesheet nor did his name come up during the investigation. It was Kasab's statement in court that first brought the spotlight on Jundal.

City Crime Branch officials said there was no confirmation if the Jundal killed by Jammu cops was the same person described by Kasab. "We will ask for the dead man's photograph and show it to Kasab to identify him. Code names are very common in LeT and so it's difficult to say anything more without further verification,'' a senior officer said.

Source:: Times Of India