A Metropolitan court in Mumbai today
granted custody of LeT operative and key 26/11 handler Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal to Maharashtra ATS in connection with the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case.

Metropolitan magistrate P S Rathod gave Jundal's custody to the Anti-Terrorism Squad a day after he recorded a confessional statement in which he is understood to have given deep insight into Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba's role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

Jundal was brought to Mumbai on July 21 after a Delhi court handed over his custody to the ATS, which wanted him in

connection with a series of terror-related crimes in Maharashtra. The ATS had, however, allowed Mumbai crime branchto secure his custody in the 26/11 case.