Syed Abdul Karim, alias Tunda (born 1943) was accused of masterminding over 40 bombings in India supported by Pakistani terrorists.
[2] Later, he received a clean chit by a Delhi court in all four cases against him,[3] although he was sentenced to life imprisonment for bomb blasts in Sonipat, Haryana.
[7] During his stay in Pakistan, he had been in touch with organisations like ISI, LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Indian Mujahideen and Babbar Khalsa and had been meeting people like Hafiz Saeed, Maulana Masood Azhar, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Dawood Ibrahim and several others wanted by India.
[citation needed] After allegedly masterminding 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, in 1994, he fled to Bangladesh where he taught making bombs to jihadi elements and in 1998, he acted as 'mentor' to give training to younger generation of Lashkar operatives in terror camps in Pakistan.
[9] In 1994, Delhi Police and the intelligence bureau raided a home in the Ashok Nagar area after receiving a tip-off from sources but Tunda managed to escape before being nabbed.
Security agencies found explosives, detonators, Pak made weapons and objectionable documents written in Urdu from his hideout in huge quantity.
Tunda was a prized catch by the Delhi police in the war against terror, who took shelter in various countries after fleeing India 20 years back.
[10] The Special Cell of Delhi Police arrested 70 years old Tunda on 16 August 2013 in Uttarakhand's Banbasa area close to the Nepal border on the basis of an information provided by R&AW.