Hafiz Saeed figures prominently on India’s most wanted list India reviews ‘most wanted’ list
Hafiz Saeed figures prominently on India’s most wanted list India is reviewing a list of its 50 most wanted fugitives purportedly hiding in Pakistan, a day after one of them was traced to a prison in Mumbai (Bombay).
Feroz Abdul Rashid Khan, who is accused of involvement in a 2003 train bombing, was arrested last year and is behind bars in the Arthur Road jail.
The list, which was given to Pakistan, has been removed from the website.
Earlier another “fugitive” was found living in Mumbai with his mother.
On Wednesday it emerged that Wazhul Kamar Khan, who is also accused of involvement in a 2003 Mumbai train bombing, had been released on bail.
Correspondents say these mistakes are likely to cost India dear, as well as being hugely embarrassing. They say Islamabad will now be able to raise doubts about the other names on the list too.
“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.
Mr Khan’s lawyer Farzana Shah told the BBC that he had been arrested on 5 February last year and has 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 and two officials have been transferred and an inquiry has been launched into the lapse, the statement said.
India gave the list to Pakistan at the end of March when the home secretaries of the two countries met for talks.
India 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.
It also accuses Pakistan of providing a safe sanctuary to former Mumbai underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. Mr Ibrahim and LeT founder Hafiz Saeed are among those named on the most-wanted list.
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