Terror suspect Tunda acquitted

A court in Hyderabad on Tuesday acquitted terror suspect Syed Abdul Karim alias Tunda in connection with a case of conspiring to carry out blasts in Hyderabad in 1998. The Metropolitan Sessions Court Judge, which had earlier deferred the verdict to Tuesday, acquitted Tunda, a suspected LeT bomb expert, on the grounds that prosecution was not able to produce sufficient evidence against him.

He is currently lodged in Ghaziabad jail. The Metropolitan Sessions Court, which had earlier deferred the verdict in the case to Tuesday, acquitted the 77-year-old Tunda, a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) bomb expert, on the grounds that prosecution was unable to produce sufficient evidence against him. The



SIT of Central Crime Station booked a case against Tunda and others under various Sections of IPC on charges of conspiring to carry out blasts during the Ganesh festival in Hyderabad.

Tunda was a co-conspirator in the case and had trained some of the other accused in preparing explosives and he was termed as a hardcore terrorist of LeT.

Police said of the 28 accused, some were arrested and convicted while the remaining were absconding. Tunda, one of India’s most-wanted terrorists and mastermind of over 40 bombings in the country, was arrested by central security agencies from the Indo-Nepal border at Banbasa.