Meanwhile, a Metropolitan court here today granted custody of LeT operative and key 26/11 handler Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal to Maharashtra ATS in connection with the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case.

Metropolitan magistrate P S Rathod gave Jundal's custody to the Anti-Terrorism Squad a day after he recorded a confessional statement in which he is understood to have given deep insight into Pakistan-based Lashker-e-Taiba's role in the 2008 Mumbai attacks. 30-year-old Jundal was in the custody of crime branch since the day he was brought here from Delhi in the 26/11 case before being remanded in judicial custody last Friday after he expressed the desire to confess his role in the Mumbai terror attacks.

Jundal was brought to Mumbai on July 21 after a Delhi court handed over his custody to the ATS, which wanted him in connection with a series of terror-related crimes in Maharashtra. The ATS had, however, allowed Mumbai crime branch to secure his custody in the 26/11 case.