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Key accused in Mumbai blasts case is in U.S.

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NEW DELHI : Feroz Abdul Rashid Khan, a key accused in the March 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, has been traced in the United States. He had been absconding since 1994 and the Central Bureau of Investigation issued an Interpol Red Corner alert notice, an agency spokesman said here on Friday.

U.S. law enforcement authorities have sought more evidence from New Delhi to decide whether Khan (47), located last month, should be detained. The CBI has sent photographs and a dossier to establish his identity.

The spokesman said the CBI approached the U.S. authorities in December for deporting or extraditing Khan, against whom the Red Corner notice had been pending for 12 years. The CBI also received a communication from the Interpol in Washington about the presence in the country of Khan, who had acquired U.S. citizenship.

A Mumbai resident, he is accused of being one of the key conspirators in the blasts, which killed 257 persons and left over 700 injured. He was allegedly involved in smuggling arms and explosives into India in January 1993 for terror attacks in the commercial capital two months later.

A TADA court in Mumbai, after completing the trial, has convicted 100 of the accused and is expected to pronounce the quantum of sentence shortly.

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