Man who sent Ansari to Pak terror camp is in Bangladesh

However,there appears to have been no formal follow-up initiated to seek his extradition to India.

While alleged 26/11 plotter Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal is finally in the custody of Indian agencies after he was put on a plane from Saudi Arabia,another key Lashkar operative,Raheel Abdul Rehman Shaikh,an accused in the May 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case in Maharashtra,is still believed to be holed up in neighbouring Bangladesh.

Shaikh,who used to live in a one-room apartment in Mumbais Grant Road,is said to be the man who sent Ansari and several other LeT recruits in Maharashtra to terror training camps in Bahawalpur and Muzaffarabad following the Gujarat riots.

Top Maharashtra Police officers said after fleeing Mumbai in May 2006,Shaikh took refuge in Bangladesh. Shortly after,Maharashtra ATS officials were unofficially informed that Shaikh was held by the police in Bangladesh in connection with a fake passport case.

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However,there appears to have been no formal follow-up initiated to seek his extradition to India.

We were told through unofficial channels that Raheel Shaikh,an accused in the Aurangabad arms haul case,had been held. However,it became difficult to press for extradition without any formal communication from authorities in Bangladesh, said former Maharashtra ATS chief K P Raghuvanshi.

Raheel is believed to have provided fake passports to Lashkar operatives,and procured visas on the basis of forged documents which were used by LeT operatives such as Ansari and Fayaz Kagzi for travel to Pakistan via Iran.

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