The alleged top Lashkar-e-Tayyaba bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda was on Saturday sent to 14 days’ judicial custody by a city court.
A magistrate visited Tunda in AIIMS where he is undergoing treatment and remanded him to custody till September 7. Tunda was scheduled to be produced before the court on Saturday after expiry of his four-day police custody. He was admitted to the Intensive Cardiac Care Unit at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on Friday.
Meanwhile, Tunda, who was arrested from the Indo-Nepal border last Friday, underwent a surgery to implant a pacemaker in his heart at AIIMS on Saturday.
70-year-old Tunda, who was admitted to Safdarjung Hospital on Thursday night after he complained of severe chest pain and was shifted to AIIMS on Friday afternoon, was detected with complete heart block, hospital sources said.
His condition was stated to be stable after the surgery.
“Tunda was taken to the cath lab at around 2.45 pm today from the cardiac care unit following which the doctors implanted a pacemaker in his heart,” they said.
He underwent the procedure in the supervision of cardio consultants Dr Nitish Naik and Dr Gautam Sharma.
A heavy contingent of armed police guards was deployed outside the ward where Tunda is being treated.
Meanwhile, defence counsel M.S. Khan said that Tunda spoke to his family members in Pakistan before his surgery. He had asked his lawyer to request the metropolitan magistrate to allow him to talk to his family in Pakistan.
“The permission was granted. Tunda then used the official phone of the investigating officer to talk to his family in Pakistan. He told his family that he was undergoing a surgery,” lawyer M.S. Khan said.