One of India's top 20 wanted terrorists Abdul Karim Tunda has been arrested by Delhi Police. The mastermind of over 40 bombings in the country, Tunda alias Abdul Quddooss was arrested from Indo-Nepal border. He was produced before a duty magistrate early in the morning in New Delhi today and the court sent him to three day's police custody.

Addressing a news conference, Commissioner of Police , Special Cell, S.N.Srivastava said 70-year-old Tunda, an expert bomb maker of terror outfit Lashkar-e-Toiba, was arrested yesterday at around 3 PM from the Banwasa-Mehendarnagar border with Nepal, and brought to Delhi. He was wanted for his role in 1993 Mumbai serial train blasts, Delhi bomb blasts of 1997-98 and serial bombings in the state of Uttar Pradesh and also at Panipat, Sonepat, Ludhiana, Hyderabad and other places.

Tunda is one of 20 terrorists India had demanded the Pakistani government to hand over after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack. This list includes Laskhar-e-Taiba chief Hafiz Saeed, Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar and Dawood Ibrahim, amongst others. Police said Tunda was wanted in 21 cases in Delhi alone that were committed in 1994 and in 1996-1998.

He was carrying a Pakistani Passport in the name of Abdul Quddus. The CBI had charged Karim with organising LeT's major terror attacks outside of Jammu and Kashmir and a series of 43 bombings in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Rohtak and Jalandhar in which over 20 persons were killed and over 400 injured.