Zabiuddin Ansari is accused of being involved in 2008 Mumbai attacks.
20 Facts About Zabiuddin Ansari
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Zabiuddin Ansari served as the handler of the 10 LeT terrorists during 2008 Mumbai attacks.
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Zabiuddin Ansari is a suspect in several cases such as the Kalupur station blast case of 9 February 2006 and an accomplice in the 2010 Pune bombing case.
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Zabiuddin Ansari was deported from Saudi Arabia on 25 June 2012 and is currently in the custody of Indian security agencies.
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Zabiuddin Ansari's father Syed Zakiuddin had worked as an insurance agent.
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Zabiuddin Ansari had studied in Urdu up to Class X in Georai and joined Industrial Training Institute, Beed.
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Zabiuddin Ansari was arrested by the Indian police in Maharashtra in 2003 for stabbing and attempting to immolate a woman, with whom his family was entrenched in a marital dispute.
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Zabiuddin Ansari married in 2009 to a Pakistani woman and has a son in Pakistan.
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Zabiuddin Ansari trained for terrorism in Pakistan in the 2000s and recruited for Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Indian Mujahideen.
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Zabiuddin Ansari was introduced into LeT by a senior in college Fayaz Kagazi, who is suspected to be in Saudi Arabia.
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Zabiuddin Ansari narrowly escaped an arrest in 2006 and reached Pakistan via Bangladesh.
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Zabiuddin Ansari had lived in Pakistan for sometime after which he moved to Saudi Arabia where he worked as a teacher.
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Zabiuddin Ansari had been missing since 2005 and is known to have used at least ten aliases.
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Zabiuddin Ansari was the Hindi tutor and handler of the 10 terrorists responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks that claimed 166 lives.
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Zabiuddin Ansari is believed to be one of the four LeT men who had come to send off Ajmal Kasab and nine other terrorists from Karachi a week prior they went to Mumbai.
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Investigators allege that Zabiuddin Ansari was present in Lashkar's Karachi based control room during the Mumbai attack.
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Zabiuddin Ansari has claimed after his arrest that LeT chief Hafiz Saeed was present in the LeT control room from where they had directed the Mumbai attack terrorist incident.
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Zabiuddin Ansari additionally claimed that ISI and Pakistani army officials helped plan the Mumbai attacks.
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The arrest of Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari was touted as the most significant development in the 2008 Mumbai attacks case after Kasab's arrest.
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Zabiuddin Ansari although being an Indian, held a Pakistani passport and two Pakistani identity cards, which pointed towards Pakistan's involvement.