File picture of Abdul Karim Tunda after his arrest in Delhi
One-handed bomb-maker Abdul Karim Tunda's son worked for Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT) in Jammu and Kashmir and spent eight years in jail, a Delhi Police officer said today.
"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.
"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 1985 his left hand got blown-off while making a pipe bomb in Tonk and he got the name Tunda - meaning a one-handed man. Besides a cloth factory in Pakistan, he recently he bought clothes and perfume shops in Karachi and Lahore, police said.
At the age of 62, Tunda, over five-feet tall, married an 18-year-old woman in Bangladesh, police said. Investigators said Tunda told them that he went to Bangladesh to evade arrest by Indian agencies.
Three years back his third wife Asmaan delivered a boy who lives with his mother in Bangladesh, the officer said.
Tunda would be presented in a court tomorrow over a case in which a consignment of explosives was recovered from south Delhi's Malviya Nagar area in 1994. Seven people were arrested in the case.
According to police Tunda hinted at his involvement in the 1997 bombing outside the Delhi Police headquarters in central Delhi.
Tunda was arrested by Delhi Police on August 16 near Nepal border. Police claim he was involved in more than 40 blasts across India, since 1993.