Author: Ajit K Dubey
US citizen Kenneth Haywood, who had alleged that the Anti Terror Squad of the Mumbai Police had asked for bribes to let him off from the Ahmedabad serial blasts case, is believed to have bribed the immigration officials at the Delhi airport to escape from India.
Intelligence sources say Haywood fled the country to save himself from the police and intelligence agencies which had been investigating him despite his assertions that he had nothing to do with the terror attack which killed…...
Haywood's computer was allegedly used by operatives of the Indian Mujahidin to send a terror email to various newspapers after carrying out the serial blasts in Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Surat. .
Sources in the intelligence agencies told MiD DAY that the look out notice against Haywood was issued on July 30 by the Mumbai Anti terror Squad (ATS). Such a notice, or LOC, is issued against an individual who is being investigated by the agencies. The passport details of such an individual are sent out to all the immigration centres in the country, so that he can be nabbed if he tries to flee.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has ordered a detailed enquiry into the incident and asked the concerned officials to present the report in next one month.
Sources told mid-day that the US citizen used to work as a pastor in a local church in Navi Mumbai and his wife was also teaching in the area. Sources said, "Looking at the string of events in the case, it seemed that Haywood was a spy."
Intelligence officials also did not rule out the possibility of Haywood receiving help from the US officials in the country to fly away. "The same way Rosianna Minchu, a US diplomat who was allegedly the mastermind in the Navy war room leak case, was sent off allegedly by the US embassy officials in Delhi after the agencies had closed in on her in tat case", said the official.
Agencies said that there was laxity on part of the Mumbai police also as they had failed to even impound his passport. Sources said that the ATS had not even put him in the list of people suspected or wanted in the recent serial blasts case. "His going out of the country can not even be termed as 'fleeing' as he was not wanted for any crime though he should have been here to help investigate the case", said the official.
Haywood allegedly escaped from the Indira Gandhi International airport on Sunday night around midnight along with his wife and two kids leaving the Indian agencies clueless, as they were looking to interrogate him further in the case.
Intelligence sources say Haywood fled the country to save himself from the police and intelligence agencies which had been investigating him despite his assertions that he had nothing to do with the terror attack which killed…...
Haywood's computer was allegedly used by operatives of the Indian Mujahidin to send a terror email to various newspapers after carrying out the serial blasts in Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Surat. .
Sources in the intelligence agencies told MiD DAY that the look out notice against Haywood was issued on July 30 by the Mumbai Anti terror Squad (ATS). Such a notice, or LOC, is issued against an individual who is being investigated by the agencies. The passport details of such an individual are sent out to all the immigration centres in the country, so that he can be nabbed if he tries to flee.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has ordered a detailed enquiry into the incident and asked the concerned officials to present the report in next one month.
Sources told mid-day that the US citizen used to work as a pastor in a local church in Navi Mumbai and his wife was also teaching in the area. Sources said, "Looking at the string of events in the case, it seemed that Haywood was a spy."
Intelligence officials also did not rule out the possibility of Haywood receiving help from the US officials in the country to fly away. "The same way Rosianna Minchu, a US diplomat who was allegedly the mastermind in the Navy war room leak case, was sent off allegedly by the US embassy officials in Delhi after the agencies had closed in on her in tat case", said the official.
Agencies said that there was laxity on part of the Mumbai police also as they had failed to even impound his passport. Sources said that the ATS had not even put him in the list of people suspected or wanted in the recent serial blasts case. "His going out of the country can not even be termed as 'fleeing' as he was not wanted for any crime though he should have been here to help investigate the case", said the official.
Haywood allegedly escaped from the Indira Gandhi International airport on Sunday night around midnight along with his wife and two kids leaving the Indian agencies clueless, as they were looking to interrogate him further in the case.
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