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Gujarat police to trace e-mail sender

Staff Reporter

Going to Mumbai today

Sent on the day of the Ahmedabad blasts
e-mail traced to address in Navi Mumbai

Mumbai: A team from the Gujarat crime branch is to arrive here on Wednesday to trace the person who sent the e-mail on the day of the Ahmedabad blasts.

The e-mail was traced to the Internet Protocol (IP) address of American Kenneth Haywood, who resides in Navi Mumbai. This will be the crime branch’s second visit to the city. It had arrived earlier to investigate car thefts in Navi Mumbai in connection with the blasts. The four cars used in the blasts had been stolen from there.

The Mumbai Crime Branch is also investigating the car thefts apart from the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) and the Motor Vehicle Theft Cell in Mumbai. Around 300 vehicles are stolen per month on an average. In July 2008 too, when the blasts occurred, 300 vehicles were stolen and in June 2008, the figure was reportedly 349.

Joint Commissioner (Crime), Mumbai, Rakesh Maria, told journalists on Tuesday, that on an average, 10 to 12 vehicles were stolen every day. “60 per cent of these were two-wheelers and 40 per cent were are four-wheelers,” he said.

Maria said that till date the police has tracked 21 gangs in Navi Mumbai in relation to vehicle thefts. The vehicle recovery rate per gang was five. Explaining the modus operandi of these gangs, he said that sometimes they had stolen vehicles from showrooms after promising to pay the Equated Monthly Instalment (EMI). They had also stolen them by using duplicate keys. They post different drivers at the toll points at State borders and move the cars to a different State where they procured the documentation.

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