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One of India’s most wanted terrorists, Abu Bakr a key conspirator behind the 1993 Mumbai blasts has reportedly been apprehended in the UAE.
Abu Bakar, a close aid of Dawood Ibrahim was held in the UAE, where he had been living for years, at the request of Indian authorities.
India Today, quoting sources reported that Indian agencies are in process of extraditing Abu Bakar to the country to face the law.
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Abu Bakar, whose full name is Abu Bakar Abdul Gafur Shaikh, was involved in the smuggling of gold, clothing and electronics from Gulf countries to Mumbai with Mohammad and Mustafa Dossa – key lieutenants of Dawood Ibrahim.
He was also detained in 2019, in the UAE, but managed to get away.
About 257 people had died while 713 others were injured after a series of bomb blasts in Mumbai, orchestrated by Dawood Ibrahim.
While Dawood Ibrahim, who enjoys the patronage of Pakistan’s ISI continues to live in the country, several of his accomplices have been arrested and sentenced.
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One of those who managed to get away, Salim Gazi, reportedly died in Karachi, Pakistan last month.
Gazi died of heart problems, said the sources. He was suffering from diabetes, hypertension and other ailments.
He was accused of abetting the blast and soon after the incident, he had fled to Pakistan along with other gang members of Dawood Ibrahim.
Since then, Indian authorities failed to nab him.
Last year, Yusuf Memon, brother of Tiger Memon, one of the conspirators of the blast, had died at Nashik Road Central Jail.
Another convict Mustafa Dossa had died in 2017.
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His other brother, Yakub Memon who was also convicted for his role in financing the bombings, was executed at Nagpur Central Jail on 30 July 2015.
Another key plotter, gangster Abu Salem was extradited from Portugal on November 11, 2005, after a prolonged legal battle.
The Supreme Court of Portugal, in 2012, had dismissed an appeal of the CBI which had challenged the termination of his extradition.
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In June 2017, Salem was convicted and later awarded a life sentence for his role in the 1993 serial blast case in Mumbai.
Salem was found guilty of transporting weapons from Gujarat to Mumbai ahead of the blasts.
On March 12, 1993, the country’s commercial capital had witnessed unprecedented coordinated attacks with a series of 12 bomb explosions that took place one after another in about two hours.
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