New Delhi: One-handed bomb-maker Abdul Karim Tunda’s one son, out of seven children from three wives, followed in his father’s footsteps by working for Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT) in Jammu and Kashmir and spent eight years in jail, a Delhi Police officer said yesterday.
“Abdul Waris, Tunda’s third son from second wife Mumtaz, was involved in a terror activity in Jammu and Kashmir and was later arrested and remained eight years in jail,” said a police officer, who did not wish to be named, after the interrogation of Tunda, 70.
Like his carpenter-turned-terrorist father, Waris was also an active member of the LeT and he went back to Pakistan after completing his eight-year jail term in India, said the officer.
Police said Tunda’s two wives and six children were living in Pakistan’s Lahore city. His family was looking after his cloth factory and perfume business in Lahore and Karachi, police said.
“He first got married in 1964 in Uttar Pradesh’s Ghaziabad, his native place. In search of work, he went to Ahmedabad in 1984 and there he married Mumtaz. In 1985, he went to Rajasthan’s Tonk area where he started working in a mosque,” said the officer.
In Tonk, while making a pipe bomb his left hand got blown-off in 1985 and he got the Tunda moniker — meaning a one-handed man.
Besides, making bomb and indoctrinating youths in Madrassas he runs his business, police said.
Besides a cloth factory in Pakistan, he recently bought clothes and perfume shops in Karachi and Lahore, police said.
At the age of 62, Tunda, over five-feet tall, bespectacled and sporting a flaming red beard, married an 18-year-old woman in Bangladesh, police said.
IANS
