New Delhi:
It's just not the CBI's week. Most wanted lists all over seem to have embarrassment after embarrassment lurking for the premier investigating agency.
On May 17, Wazhul Khan, named on a list of 50 most-wanted fugitives that India says are in Pakistan, was in fact found living in Thane, Mumbai. It took not more than 2 days for another, Feroze Ahmad Rashid Khan, to be discovered in India - in a Mumbai jail. And less than three hours to find a third, this time on a most wanted list on the CBI's website.
This time it is Rajkumar Meghen, the Chairman of the Manipuri militant outfit, the United National Liberation Front (UNLF). Meghen was arrested in Bangladesh and brought to India in in October, 2010. He has been in the custody of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) ever since.
But CBI still has Meghen listed as one of the most wanted on its website and Interpol has a Red Corner Notice out on the behest of the CBI.
Meghen's name on the CBI's most wanted list was discovered within a few hours of the second blooper being found on the list that India has handed over to Pakistan. Feroze Ahmad Rashid Khan is an accused in the 1993 Mumbai Blasts case lodged at the Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai and under trial. His name, however, figures at No 24 on the list of 50 most-wanted fugitives that the Ministry of Home Affairs sent to Islamabad.
Like Meghen, Feroze's name too was on the Red Corner Notice list of the Interpol.
On Tuesday Wazhul Kamar Khan's name was discovered on the most wanted list. He has been living in the Thane suburb of Mumbai. Wazhul is an accused in the 2003 Mulund Blast case and was arrested last year.