Tunda: Lakhvi sidelined me

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New Delhi: Abdul Karim Tunda, an alleged terrorist arrested by Delhi police, told the investigators that he holds a grudge with the Las­hkar-e-Tayyaba chief Zaki-ur-Rehman Lak­hvi as he scuttled his chances of reaching on the top position in the outfit. He told the sle­uths that he was not given a chance to be on the top post despite being the “architect” of its pan-India structure, which was earlier confined to Kashmir.
According to a senior Delhi police official, who interrogated the 70-year-old bomb exp­ert, Tunda blamed Lak­hvi for keeping him on “fringes” of the LeT which carried out nu­m­ber of terror attacks in India. “He says that Lakhvi, who is the mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, made sure that Tunda remains on the fringes of the organisation. He said Lakhvi did not allow him to come into the decision making body. Tunda claims that he came in contact with LeT in 1991 and since then he had worked tirelessly to build and nurture the terror outfit’s stru­cture outside Kashmir. This continued even after he left India and went to Pakistan,” the officials said. 
They said Tunda also clai­med that he was sidelined by the top LeT leadership ahead of the 26/11 attacks after his spat with Lakhvi over financial issues.
“Despite being one of the main founders of LeT’s pan-India operations, Tunda was kept out of the details of the operation. Some of the younger operatives of LeT, including Abu Jundal, were being preferred over Tunda,” said another police official. Tunda claimed that he was merely informed about the happenings of the Mumbai attack by Jama’at-ud-Da’wah chief Hafiz Saeed, who had instru­cte­d him to concentrate on Fake Indian Cur­rency Notes into India," the investigators said.