Voice on two 26/11 tapes mine: Abu Jundal

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In an important breakthrough, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba militant Abu Jundal has admitted two of the four voice samples of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks he was made to listen to during interrogation were his.

The two voice samples Jundal admitted to are of telephonic conversations between the Karachi control room and the militants at Chabad House and Trident Hotel.

In fact, in the Chabad House conversation, Jundal is heard ordering the militants to kill hostages. Jundal admitted this indeed was his voice.

Highly-placed sources close to the investigation said following Jundal’s deportation from Saudi Arabia in a covert operation, a seven-member team from Mumbai’s crime branch rushed to New Delhi with four voice samples of phone conversations between 26/11 terrorists and their Pakistani handlers.

The voice samples were taken from different locations like Taj Hotel, CST station, Trident Hotel and Chabad House.

During interrogation, Jundal admitted that the voice in the Chabad House and Trident Hotel conversations were his, while rejecting the other two, though sources said the other voices are also very similar to that of Jundal.

Senior investigating officials said this was confirmation of how dangerous and ruthless a militant Jundal is.Though Jundal’s admission during custodial interrogation is not admissible as evidence in court of law but if backed by the Voice Spectrum Tests the court can consider it as evidence during the trial. Investigating agencies have already taken a sample of Jundal’s voice and sent it for forensic examination along with the 26/11 tapes.

Sources said the samples are being tested at two different forensic labs following which an opinion will also taken from the FBI that helped confirm Jundal’s DNA test also. Intelligence agencies are in no hurry to get the results of the voice samples and have told the two forensic labs to do a 'foolproof test' on the voice samples, sources added.

Meanwhile, even as Pakistan continues to remain in the denial mode regarding State support to Jundal, sources said during the recently concluded Foreign Secretary-level talks some Pakistani officials remarked that they would first wait and see if the evidence provided by Indian agencies stands the test of trial in a court of law or not.

“Some Pak officials said that instead of asking them to act on the fresh 26/11 revelations Indian agencies should first provide enough evidence in court to secure Jundal’s conviction,’’a senior official remarked.