Where are the infamous five?

Despite publicly releasing details and sketches of five suspected LeT members, who had infiltrated the city in December, cops are yet to nab them or talk about leads in the case

Despite publicly releasing details and sketches of five suspected LeT members, who had infiltrated the city in December, cops are yet to nab them or talk about leads in the case
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Bomb blasts have become a recurrent phenomenon in the city and security is tightened after each attack, but the police have left one question unanswered where are the five terrorists who sneaked into Mumbai last year?

The city's Crime Branch had announced in December that five members of the dreaded Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) had infiltrated the city and had even released a sketch of one of them. Seven months have passed and the police are yet to arrest any of the five or give information about any leads in the case.

On December 22, 2010, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Himanshu Roy had called a press conference to say that five LeT members had entered Mumbai to carry out violent attacks and cause destruction.

He had based the information on inputs from the Intelligence Bureau and had released sketches of one Walid Jinnah in addition to identifying the other four as Abdul Karim Musa, Noor Abu Ilahi, and Mahfooz Alam.

The police had subsequently said that a special team had been assigned to keep tabs on religious places and railway stations and a special helpline was set up for people to give any information they may have on the terrorists.
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"We received more than 40 calls after setting up the helpline but they all turned out to be bogus. Most of the people had called us after seeing bearded Kashmiri men on the streets," said a senior police official attached to the control room.

Earlier too
The same thing had happened in 2009, when Crime Branch officials had released the sketch of a terrorist before Ganesh Chaturthi. This was the first time the Mumbai Police had publicly released the sketch of a suspected terrorist.

The festival had passed off peacefully and the police had later been slammed by politicians for indulging in a 'publicity gimmick."

The Other Side
Joint Commissioner of Police (crime) Himanshu Roy and Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Deven Bharti were not available for comment despite repeated attempts.

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