Court defers verdict on Abdul Karim Tunda to February 18

HYDERABAD: The judgement against Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror suspect

Abdul Karim Tunda

in 1998 Saleem Junaid module, which was scheduled to be given on Tuesday, was deferred to February 18 by the Nampally court on Tuesday. Earlier, the court had fixed Tuesday for the judgement against Tunda, who is presently lodged in Ghaziabad jail. He is expected to be brought to Hyderabad on February 18.

SIT officials had arrested Tunda in October 2013, a few months after he was nabbed by central security agencies near the Indo-Nepal border. Tunda is accused of training youngsters to carry out terror activities in India. One of these youngsters was Pakistani national Saleem Junaid, who was nabbed in Hyderabad when he and few other members of the module were planning to carry out a terror strike during Ganesh festival in 1998.


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