A special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime court on Tuesday sentenced Zabiuddin Ansari, widely known as Abu Jundal, and six others to life imprisonment in connection with the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case, reported PTI. The court had convicted them on July 28.

The case is related to a conspiracy by 22 individuals, who had procured a huge amount of arms and explosives with the intention of eliminating then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi after the communal riots in the state. During their conviction, the court had said the incident was part of a larger conspiracy to "strike terror."

On May 8, 2006, a team of Maharashtra Anti-Terrorist Squad chased two cars on Chandwad-Manmad Highway near Aurangabad and arrested three terror suspects. While Abu Jundal was driving a Tata Indica car, Mohammed Aamir Shakil Ahmed, Mohammed Juber Sayyed Anwar and Abdul Azeem Abdul Jameel Shaikh alias Raja were travelling in the other vehicle.

The police found 30 kg of RDX packed in the central processing unit of a computer, 10 AK-47 assault rifles and 3,200 bullets in the car that Jundal was driving. He is currently lodged in the Arthur Road jail in Mumbai for his role in the 2008 Mumbai terror attack.