In court, the judge questioned the Delhi Police why should Jundal's custody be extended, especially when other investigating agencies like the Mumbai's crime branch, the Anti-Terrorism Squads of Maharashtra and Pune, the Gujarat and the West Bengal police along with the National Investigating Agency (NIA) are also asking for custody. The Delhi Police replied that it cannot disclose that in the open, after which the judge ordered the press to leave the court.
After the Delhi Police made its argument, the court granted the extension.
"I am impressed most with the case of the Special Cell of the Delhi Police where this accused has already been in custody for 15 days. Special teams were set up which have gathered intelligence... The interest of justice demands that an agency which is midway in concluding its investigation, the loose strings cannot be allowed to remain... I have strong faith that the ongoing invest by the Special Cell of Delhi Police will help other agencies including the National Investigation Agency (NIA), as the others can take a clue from and develop further investigations thereupon," the judge said.
Several investigation agencies, which seek Jundal's custody, suspect his involvement in cases like the German bakery blast and in a conspiracy to attack Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Jundal was taken to the Safdarjung Hospital for a medical examination
before being brought to the court. A heavily armoured vehicle followed
the car in which he was transported; there was heavy security at the
court as well.Jundal was deported from Saudi Arabia to India last month. Originally from Beed in Maharashtra, the 31-year-old has confessed that he helped coordinate the attacks in Mumbai in 2008 in which 166 people were killed. Jundal was stationed at what he describes as a "control room" near the Karachi international airport. He has told Indian intelligence agencies that from there, a team of six handlers including him passed on detailed instructions to the ten terrorists who were unleashing India's worst-ever terror attacks at different Mumbai landmarks. He has said a man referred to by him and the others as Major Sameer visited the control room while Mumbai was being ravaged. The Major allegedly passed on orders to Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, a senior commander of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, who was arrested after 26/11 by Pakistan.
Jundal has said that Lakhvi had a house within a camp for terrorists at Bait-ul-Mujahideen near Muzaffarabad. Here, the Lashkar commander stayed with his three wives.
Jundal has told Indian officials that after 26/11, the control room in Karachi was raided and those who had been based there were asked to disperse. After Lakhvi's arrest, a handler for 26/11 named Muzammil took over as the Lashkar chief. He allegedly took Jundal to Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir to meet an officer of the ISI who was referred to by the terrorists as Colonel Hamza. The ISI officer then gave instructions to Jundal to stop using his phone and to be careful about where he was seen.
