What the Doctor Ordered Continues ……….

In 1993 he went to Pakistan and received training in LeT-run training camps. On his return, he was responsible for over forty bombings in India. He convinced Dr Ansari that mere discussions and proclamations on the problems of Muslims would do little good for the oppressed minority community and it was time to take some direct and decisive action.

Tunda convinced the doctor to learn the use of firearms and the technique of making bombs. The doctor wanted to know where he could get such training.

Tunda was ready to teach him bomb-making then and there. He had brought with him explosive material, detonators, timers, etc. The doctor, who had until then examined patients suffering from physiological ailments and helped them with cures, was persuaded in no time to learn bomb-making.

The doctor was ready to kill innocent people with his new skills, unmindful of what his medical education had prepared him for. The metamorphosis the good doctor had undergone amazed Jalees Ansari himself. Dr Jekyll had turned into Mr Hyde.


The coming together of Azam Ghauri, Abdul Karim Tunda and Dr Jalees Ansari was a meeting of three evil and dangerous minds. Both Ansari and his mentor Tunda kept in touch and soon the latter sent fresh supplies of explosive material to Ansari.

In the interim, Ansari had collected a small team of like-minded people, all based in Mumbai, all ready to do his bidding. Tunda came down to Mumbai and made bombs at Dr Ansari’s residence, which the doctor and three of his compatriots—Saleem, Bachchu and Raees—planted in five gurdwaras in Andheri, Khar, Sion, Haliwada and CST station to incite communal disaffection amongst Sikhs.

This was the first criminal activity the doctor had indulged in. There was no looking back for him thereafter. He and his team members, all belonging to the Ahl-e-Hadees school of thought, now had expertise in making and planting bombs.

To be Continued ………….