RDX, AK-47 rifles and large number of bullets were seized from their possession.
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Mumbai: The Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) will deliver the verdict on the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case today. He is now lodged in the Arthur Road jail in Mumbai for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attack. Ten others were acquitted by the court.
The case is related to an alleged conspiracy by 22 individuals who who had procured a huge amount of arms and explosives with the intention of eliminating then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi after the communal riots in the state.
The case pertains to the May 8, 2006 operation by Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad in which three terror suspects travelling in a auto were nabbed on the Chandwad-Manmad highway near Aurangabad. Later, charges were framed against the arrested accused in August 2013.
The Tata Indica auto, which was allegedly driven by Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal now in Arthur Road jail for his role in the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attack, had under mysterious circumstances managed to escape the ATS team that was chasing them.
Earlier, the trial had been stayed by the Supreme Court after one of the accused had challenged the constitutional validity of certain provisions in the MCOCA invoked on the accused. The stay was vacated in 2009.
The auto was believed to have been driven by Abu Jundal who escaped to Pakistan, but he managed to give police a slip. In August a year ago, the Bombay high court directed the lower court to expedite the trial.
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Jundal dumped the vehicle with another associate in Malegaon in Nashik district and fled to Bangladesh and then to Pakistan on a forged passport.
