NEW DELHI: FayyazKagzi, a Lashkar-e-Taiba operative wanted in the 2010 German Bakery blasts and the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case, is said to have recently shifted base to Pakistan from Saudi Arabia, even as agencies here counted on the Saudi authorities to deport him.
According to intelligence sources, Kagzi was based in Saudi Arabia since 2009. He is accused of recruiting terrorists from India along with 26/11 handler Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal, who was deported by Saudi authorities last year.
Agencies believe that Kagzi, who hails from Beed district of Maharashtra, decided to shift back to Pakistan, where he had lived after escaping from India in the wake of the Aurangabad arms haul, on seeing the heightened cooperation of Saudi authorities in meeting India's requests for deportation of terror fugitives like Jundal and Fasih Mahmood.
While Jundal was deported in June 2012, Mahmood was handed over by Saudi authorities in October 2012. The two deportations had heightened the expectations of Indian agencies for Kagzi's custody as well. "But as per our latest information, Kagzi is living in Pakistan," an intelligence officer said.
Kagzi had fled to Pakistan via Bangladesh in the wake of the Aurangabad arms haul with the help of Hyderabad terror operative Shahid Bilal. He later shifted to Saudi Arabia and oversaw recruitment of Indian youth for LeT operations.
His aide Jundal told Indian investigators last year that he and Kagzi had a meeting in Colombo in 2008 to which Himayat Mirza Baig, also from Beed and now being tried in the German Bakery blasts case, was summoned. During the meeting, Jundal and Kagzi gave money to Baig to buy explosive devices and pay for indoctrinated youths to travel to Pakistan for terror training.
Kagzi hails from Feroz Shah Nagar, New Shahenshai Nagar, near Aqsa mosque in Beed. It is learnt that Kagzi and Jundal had formed a group of around 10 youths, who were selected from and around Beed to wage terror strikes.
On June 8, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) registered an FIR against Jundal and Kagzi for being part of a terror organization. The FIR was based on information that Kagzi and Jundal were trying to organize explosives for certain LeT and IM operatives in India for attacks in Delhi and Mumbai. Both Jundal and Kagzi have been charged under sections 18 and 20 (for being part of a terror organization) of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act ( UAPA).
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