50 “most wanted fugitives” removed from the website

MUMBAI: India is reviewing its list of most wanted fugitive after a big blur.

Feroz Abdul Rashid Khan, who is accused of involvement in a 2003 train bombing, was arrested last year and is behind bars in the city’s Arthur Road jail, while India’s list of “most wanted fugitive” says he is hiding in Pakistan. Similar other mistakes were there.

Earlier it turned out that another “fugitive” had already been bailed and was living in Mumbai with his mother.
Due to this now Islamabad will now be able to raise doubts about other names on the list too. Opposition parties and Pakistani media have derided the episode as a fiasco.

On Wednesday Doubts were raised when it emerged that Wazhul Kamar Khan, who is also accused of involvement in a 2003 Mumbai train bombing, had already been released on bail.

India gave the list to Pakistan at the end of March when the home secretaries of the two countries met for talks.
It blames Pakistan-based militant groups, such as the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), for carrying out many of the attacks in India in recent years.

Also accuses Pakistan of providing sanctuary to former Mumbai underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. Mr Ibrahim and LeT founder Hafiz Saeed are among those named on the most-wanted list.

Now the “most wanted” list was removed from the website of the Central Bureau of Investigation after news of the second mistake emerged.

“We have an inmate called Feroze Khan in the Arthur Road jail,” the Times of India newspaper quoted the inspector general of prisons, Surendra Kumar, as saying.

Khan’s lawyer Farzana Shah told that he had been arrested on 5 February last year and had been in jail since then.

In a statement, the CBI said “a preliminary inquiry has revealed a lapse regarding inclusion of Feroz Abdul Rashid Khan in the list”.

An inspector has been suspended, two officials transferred and an inquiry launched into the lapse, the statement said.