American national Kenneth Haywood has left Indian security agencies red-faced by leaving the country along with his family though a look-out notice had been issued against his name.
Red faces in security set-up as look-out notice had been issued
MUMBAI: American national Kenneth Haywood has left Indian security agencies red-faced by leaving the country along with his family though a look-out notice had been issued against his name.
The American, who was living in the Sanpada area of Navi Mumbai, left for the US from the Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi on the intervening night of August 16-17.
The look-out notice had been routinely issued by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) as it had asked him not to leave the country pending investigations after the email warning sent by Indian Mujahideen minutes before the July 26 Ahmedabad serial blasts was traced to his Internet Protocol address.
Additional commissioner of police (ATS) Param Bir Singh said that there was
apparently a security lapse at the Delhi airport and the police there would look into it.
Haywood fled even as the reports of the polygraph and the brain-mapping tests conducted on him turned out to be negative. Haywood and nine others were subjected to polygraph test and brain-mapping at the Kalina Forensic Sciences Laboratory by the ATS on August 13.
Preliminary reports also suggest that Haywood’s three computers the ATS had sent for forensic were not used to send the terror email and his WiFi network is suspected to have been hacked to send the terror message.
Haywood’s lawyer GS Hegde said: “I had gone out of town for a couple of days and am unaware whether Haywood has left the country. I spoke to him last on Friday (August 15). He never indicated or mentioned that he had intentions to leave the country. I personally feel that he must have gone away to get a break and relax from the trauma he has gone through in the past couple of weeks.”
The state ATS claimed that there was no lapse on its part since there was no restriction on Haywood’s movement within the country. “We could not impound his passport since his involvement in the Ahmedabad blasts was not confirmed,” a senior ATS officer said.
According to police, Haywood was in Mumbai till Friday and then is believed to have taken a domestic flight to Delhi.
Last week, Haywood had told a section of the media that a police officer had demanded money from him to remove him from the case. Officials are puzzled why Haywood did not come to the ATS office for enquiries regarding his allegations.
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