Abu Jundal, one of the handlers of the 26/11 terrorists on Friday expressed his desire before a metropolitan court in Mumbai to confess his complicity in the brazen attack. It can a day after he was confronted with Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving assassin in the case.

Sources in Mumbai Crime Branch said that thirty-year-old Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal made a verbal plea before Additional Chief Metropolitan that he wanted to make a voluntary confession about his role in the attacks.

The magistrate explained to him the procedure of recording the confession and also informed him that his confessional statement could be used against him.

Jundal, a native of Beed district of Maharashtra, was arrested in the 26/11 case by Mumbai police after he was brought from Delhi where he had been apprehended in another case after being deported from Saudi Arabia in June.Kasab and Jundal were on Thursday interrogated together for at least one-and-a-half hours during which the lone surviving Pakistani perpetrator of 26/11 identified the latter as one of the conspirators.