America
Indian taken off FBI's Most Wanted list
New Delhi, August 20
Shivraj Singh Dabi, an Indian national, has said that he has been taken off FBI's Most Wanted list.
Dabi,
based in Madhya Pradesh, said in a statement that an American court had
granted permission to remove the charge of "Unlawful Flight to Avoid
Prosecution" and added that this order makes it clear that he is no
longer on the FBI wanted list.
Dabi, however, admitted that a
case is pending against him in Sacramento County Court in California and
he is "looking forward to conclude the case by following appropriate
legal process."
In March this year, an IANS story had given details about him being put on the FBI wanted list.
The
FBI had declared Dabi a cyber-fugitive in 2008. It said Dabi had fled
from Sacramento County after he was found guilty of charges relating to
accessing the computers of his previous employer and deleting and
purposely damaging the data on these computers, which was a felony in
the US.
"As soon as this news came to my knowledge, I contacted
the U.S. Embassy, New Delhi and expressed my intention to provide full
cooperation in respect of warrant issued against me by the FBI", Dabi
said in the statement. A court in Sacramento allowed recall of the FBI
warrant on June 16 this year.
Dabi was working as a consultant
in IT department with the state government in Bhopal, and his contract
was not renewed after his name was put on the FBI wanted list.