<p>A court in Hyderabad on Tuesday acquitted terror suspect Syed Abdul Karim alias Tunda in connection with a case of allegedly conspiring to carry out a series of blasts in Hyderabad in 1998. The Metropolitan Sessions Court Judge, which had earlier deferred the verdict in the case to Tuesday, acquitted Tunda, a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) bomb expert, on the grounds that prosecution was not able to produce sufficient evidence against the accused.</p>.<p>A case was registered against Tunda and others here in 1998 on charges of conspiring to carry out blasts during the Ganesh festival in Hyderabad.</p>.<p>According to Hyderabad police, Tunda was a co-conspirator in the case and had trained some of the other accused in preparing bombs and explosives and he was termed as a "hardcore terrorist" of the LeT module.</p>.<p>The case was registered under various sections of the IPC including criminal conspiracy, Arms Act, Explosives Substances Act, Passport Act and Foreigners Act.</p>.<p>Police have said of the 28 accused, some of them were arrested and convicted while the remaining were absconding.</p>.<p>Tunda, one of India's most-wanted terrorists and mastermind of over 40 bombings in the country, was arrested by central security agencies from the Indo-Nepal border at Banbasa on August 16, 2013.</p>.<p>He was subsequently arrested by the Hyderabad Police.</p>.<p>He is also suspected of involvement in some other blast cases across the country, some of which are still pending.</p>.<p>The 77-year-old Tunda, who is currently lodged in Ghaziabad jail, was one of the 20 terrorists whom India had asked the Pakistan government to hand over after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.</p>
<p>A court in Hyderabad on Tuesday acquitted terror suspect Syed Abdul Karim alias Tunda in connection with a case of allegedly conspiring to carry out a series of blasts in Hyderabad in 1998. The Metropolitan Sessions Court Judge, which had earlier deferred the verdict in the case to Tuesday, acquitted Tunda, a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) bomb expert, on the grounds that prosecution was not able to produce sufficient evidence against the accused.</p>.<p>A case was registered against Tunda and others here in 1998 on charges of conspiring to carry out blasts during the Ganesh festival in Hyderabad.</p>.<p>According to Hyderabad police, Tunda was a co-conspirator in the case and had trained some of the other accused in preparing bombs and explosives and he was termed as a "hardcore terrorist" of the LeT module.</p>.<p>The case was registered under various sections of the IPC including criminal conspiracy, Arms Act, Explosives Substances Act, Passport Act and Foreigners Act.</p>.<p>Police have said of the 28 accused, some of them were arrested and convicted while the remaining were absconding.</p>.<p>Tunda, one of India's most-wanted terrorists and mastermind of over 40 bombings in the country, was arrested by central security agencies from the Indo-Nepal border at Banbasa on August 16, 2013.</p>.<p>He was subsequently arrested by the Hyderabad Police.</p>.<p>He is also suspected of involvement in some other blast cases across the country, some of which are still pending.</p>.<p>The 77-year-old Tunda, who is currently lodged in Ghaziabad jail, was one of the 20 terrorists whom India had asked the Pakistan government to hand over after the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.</p>