CBI official suspended, two shunted out for terror list error

By IANS,

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Thursday suspended an inspector and transferred two senior officers after another person, named in India’s Most Wanted list given to Pakistan, was found in a Mumbai jail.


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“The CBI conducted a preliminary enquiry into the lapse. A inspector was suspended and a superintendent and deputy superintendent of police transferred,” said a CBI statement issued here.

Feroze Abdul Rashid Khan, listed in the dossier as Most Wanted criminal No.27, was Thursday found to be in Mumbai’s fortified Arthur Road Central Jail and facing trial in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, official sources said.

The embarrassing revelation come two days after Wazhul Qamar Khan, accused number 42, and alleged to be in Pakistan, was found working and living with his family in Thane.

Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram had expressed regrets and Wazhul’s name was struck off the list.

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