Convicted Pak spy to appeal in high court

Espionage case convict Javed Mozawala will file an appeal in the Bombay HC on Monday challenging the sessions court order that sentenced him to jail for seven years. Jamiat-ul-Ulama will file the application on Mozawala’s behalf. “We are not satisfied with the lower courts judgment,” said Gulzar Azmi, secretary of Jamiat’s legal cell. 

 

The Times of India, July 22, 2013

Police’s handling of cases under anti-espionage act is inconsistent

Mateen Hafeez TNN

Mumbai: The police’s work on cases under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) has been inconsistent. While they put in their best to secure conviction for Mazgaon resident Javed Mozawala (32), they hardly worked on a 26/ 11-related case since it concerned their own. 

    Twelve cops, including two IPS officers, were questioned for leaking police control room conversations and contents of a log book during the 2008 terror attack. Three private news channels aired the conversations. In March 2009, inspector Dattatrey Bhargude of the crime branch lodged an FIR at the Azad Maidan police station against unidentified persons. The case was registered under the act’s sections 3 (penalties for spying), 5 (wrongful communication of information) and 7 (interfering with police or military officers).
 

    “There is not enough evidence to support the charges. We filed a C summary report in court and closed the case,” said additional commissioner of police (crime branch) Niket Kaushik. 

 

The Times of India, July 16, 2013

I’m innocent, convicted spy says in tears

Rebecca Samervel & Mateen Hafeez TNN

Asessions court convicted visa agent Javed Mozawala (32) on Monday, saying he had obtained information useful to the nation’s enemies. Referring to a telephone directory seized from him, judge Vrushali Joshi said it was a restricted document, which could be misused by “civilians with wrong intent”. She said the directory revealed detailed information about the functioning of the army and Pakistan’s intelligence operatives had called on the numbers to draw information about the organization, its appointments and functions. 

 

“Therefore, it is a matter of security concern.”   The evidence the court took into account included pictures of Lonavla Dam and the Pir Pau Jetty. “If something goes wrong at the… dam, the entire lake water will get drained into Lonavala city. There will be floods… and this will cause damage to life and property. It will cause havoc,” the judge observed. She said the jetty’s photographs could be used by the nation’s enemies to plan attacks, “causing economic distress and industrial disaster” that would affect fuel supply to Mumbai. Special public prosecutor Prakash Shetty sought maximum punishment for Mozawala. “This is a very serious offence. He has done it for monetary benefits,” said Shetty. 

    Mozawala started sobbing inconsolably when the court sentenced him. His mother, Kulsum Bi, told the court, “My son is innocent. He has two little girls. Please leave him.” The judge replied, “What has happened has happened.”  Mozawala told TOI, “I’m innocent. My lawyer provided favourable evidence, but the court did not consider them.”
 

    NGO Jamiat-ul-Ulama, which has given Mozawala free legal aid, said it will appeal in the Bombay high court.  The police claimed to have seized during their probe photocopies of 42 pages with telephone and code numbers, eight pages of instructions on how to conduct secret operations and how Islamic groups exchange messages, coloured photographs of 21 defence establishments, bridges, dams and topographies of surrounding areas, 13 visa application forms for the Pakistan high commission, and 15 Indian passports. The chargesheet was filed in March 2011. The court examined 27 witnesses, including two employees of the ministry of external affairs, Mozawala’s family members, and police officers. Seven witnesses turned hostile.
    “We had a lot of supporting evidence… and witnesses’ statements proved conclusive,” said additional commissioner of police (crime branch) Niket Kaushik. 

    Picking holes in the investigation, Mozawala’s lawyer had earlier said that though the police claimed that Mozawala was a frequent visitor to the Pakistani high commission in New Delhi and met a Pakistani diplomat called Bhatti, witnesses in the case could not point out the ‘Bhatti’ the police were referring to. Khan said the ministry of external affairs had confirmed in a letter that there was no one at the high commission who went by the name Jamal Bhatti.
 

IN THE SERVICE OF SECRETS EVIDENCE
    Photocopies of 42 pages with telephone and code numbers, and eight pages of instructions on secret operations and message exchange among Islamic groups
    Coloured photographs of 21 defence establishments, bridges, dams and maps of surrounding areas
    13 visa application forms for the Pakistani high commission
    15 Indian passports Police claimed the numbers were EPABX (electronic private automatic branch exchange) numbers, which are confidential. They said Mozawala passed on the information to one Bhatti in the Pakistani high commission in New Delhi  

 

CHARGES Filed under Official Secrets Act  

Section 3 (1) (C) | Among other things, a person can be sentenced up to 14 years in prison if he/she collects, records, publishes or communicates any secret official code, password, sketch, plan, model, or document useful to an enemy of the nation
 

Section 4 | Communication with foreign agents is evidence of commission of certain offences
 

Section 9 | Attempting to commit or abetting an offence under the Official Secrets Act invites same punishment as committing the offence The accused was in contact with persons in the Pakistan embassy (sic) named Jamal Bhatti and Abdul Latif Bhatti, who were from Pakistan. (This) shall be relevant for the purpose of proving that he has for the purpose prejudicial to the safety or interest of the state obtained information which is directly useful to an enemy
 

Judge Vrushali Joshi |
 

CITY CIVIL AND SESSIONS COURT PUNISHMENT
    7 years’ rigorous imprisonment under section 3 (1) (C) of the Official Secrets Act
7 years’ rigorous imprisonment under section 9
Sentences to run concurrently
 

WHAT NEXT Mozawala will file an appeal against the order in the Bombay high court My son is innocent. He has two little girls. He was illegally detained for two days before he was shown arrested. He has been falsely implicated in the case and the evidence was planted
Kulsum Bi | MOZAWALA’S MOTHER

In October 2010, the police tap Mozawala’s cellphone after a tip-off and zero in on contact numbers of Pakistani nationals

They track his movements for three months and find him visiting the Pakistani high commission in New Delhi

They raid his Mazgaon flat on the night of December 9, 2010, seize incriminating documents and pick him up

CONVICT Javed Mozawala (32) Arrested on December 9, 2010 for spying Arts graduate, holds a diploma in air ticketing
Was working as passport and visa agent at the time of arrest
Stayed in Mazgaon (East) with wife, son, mother and elder brother

The Times of India, July 16, 2013

City visa agent gets 7 yrs for being Pak spy

Javed Mozawala was held with sensitive defence documents

Rebecca Samervel & Mateen Hafeez TNN

Mumbai: A sessions court on Monday sentenced a visa agent to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment for being a Pakistani spy. Mazgaon resident Javed Mozawala (32) was convicted under the Official Secrets Act after being found guilty of being in possession of sensitive documents such as the telephone directory of the defence command headquarters and pictures of vital installations. This is the second conviction of a suspected Pakistani agent in two years. 

    Mozawala, a resident of Mazgaon (East), was arrested on December 9, 2010 on charges of spying. Elaborating on the grounds of Mozawala’s conviction (under the Act’s section 4—communication with foreign agents) judge Vrushali Joshi said, “The accused was in contact with persons in the Pakistan embassy (sic) named Jamal Bhatti and Abdul Latif Bhatti who were from Pakistan.”

 

The Times of India, July 16, 2013

Judgment in ‘Pak spy’ case expected today

Mateen Hafeez TNN

Mumbai: The sessions court judgment in the Javed Mozawala espionage case is expected on Friday. Mozawala (28), a resident of Infinity Towers, Mazgaon (East), was arrested on December 9, 2010, on charges of spying for a foreign country. His family has said he was framed.
 

    The police’s crime intelligence unit (CIU) claimed to have seized during their probe photocopies of 42 pages with telephone and code numbers, eight pages of instructions on how to conduct secret operations and how Islamic groups exchange messages, coloured photographs of 21 defence establishments, bridges, dams and topographies of surrounding areas, 13 visa application forms for the Pakistan high commission, and 15 Indian passports.
 

    The police claimed the numbers were EPABX (electronic private automatic branch exchange) numbers. “These are confidential numbers. How did Mozawala get hold of these and for what purpose? This question must be answered,” an officer had said after his arrest. 

    Advocate Wahab Khan, who is representing Mozawala, has found several loopholes in the police’s theory. Though the police claimed that Mozawala was a frequent visitor to the Pakistani high commission in New Delhi and met a Pakistani diplomat called Bhatti, witnesses in the case could not point out the ‘Bhatti’ the police were referring to. Khan has said that the ministry of external affairs has confirmed in a letter that there was no one working with the high commission who went by the name Jamal Bhatti.
    In another letter, the ministry stated that the high commission has once employed Abdul Lateef Bhatti, but the gentleman had left India in March 2010, seven months before Mozawala’s arrest. One of the witnesses had told the court that an assistant police inspector had shown him someone’s photograph saying he was Abdul Lateef Bhatti, with whom Mozawala was in touch. 

    Also, while the police claimed that Mozawala had given a packet to a witness to hand over to Bhatti at the high commission, the witness told the court he never saw or met Bhatti. Mozawala’s lawyer had also picked holes in the police theory that his client had given a brown envelop to the witness to hand over to “someone” at the high commission. 

 

The Times of India, July 5, 2013

Did Mozawala get help from defence insider?

Mateen Hafeez TNN

Mumbai: The crime branch is now probing whether any government officer attached to the armed forces was in touch with the alleged Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) mole, Javed Mozawala. The police sources, who recovered over 95 electronic private automatic branch exchange (EPABX) phone code numbers belonging to the navy and army offices from the suspect, said it was not easy to get them without the helpe of an insider.

Mozawala, (28), a resident of Infinity Towers in Mazgaon (E), was arrested on December 9 on charges of spying for a foreign country. He was produced before a court and remanded in police custody till December 20. Crime branch sources said that he was allegedly in touch with two Pakistani nationals working at the Pakistan High Commission’s Delhi office.

“Mozawala was found in possession of photos of sensitive installations, dams and bridges. To click the photos he entered the restricted defence areas, which are inaccessible to the public. We suspect that he could have been provided some support. Otherwise, he would not have been able to take close-ups of sensitive installations like the defence base in Lonavla,” said a senior police official. It is also learned that the crime branch is in the process of writing a letter to the defence authorities. “Mozawala, a class XII pass-out, is not a civil engineer who would have knowledge about the breach point of bridges and dams. He has clicked these photographs with utmost clarity. We also suspect that someone had guided him while clicking the photos of around 25 locations in the country,” said another officer. Among the places photographed by Mozawala is the Bandra-Worli Sea Link. Mozawala, an Indian, is suspected to be a spy for ISI who did a recce of the army’s cantonment area in New Delhi in mid-2010.

The police have seized a computer, a hard disk, five DVDs, two pen drives, a mobile phone, several sim cards, maps, pictures and some documents from Mozawala. He had also drawn some maps relating to the job assigned to him, said a police source. “In the last two years, Mozawala had been paid more than Rs 9 lakh (Indian currency) at the Pakistani Hi Commission. We want to find out where he spent this money and why he was given Rs 9 lakh when he was already getting his Pakistan visas for free,” said an officer.

The Times of India, December, 19, 2010

ISI ‘mole’ had phone nos of defence units

NUMBERS WERE CONFIDENTIAL

Mateen Hafeez TNN

Mumbai: The city crime branch and intelligence bureau (IB), who are jointly interrogating alleged ISI mole Javed Mozawala, have recovered more than 87 coded telephone numbers belonging to defence establishments across the country.

According to security sources, most numbers belong to naval establishments. “The numbers were typed on a piece of paper. We are still questioning Mozawala as to whether he received these numbers from someone or prepared a list of these coded telephone numbers for any of his contacts,” said a source.

The numbers belong to electronic private automative branching exchange (EPABX). “These are confidential numbers. How did Mozawala get hold of these and for what purpose? This question must be answered,” said a source.

One of the latest trends in EPABX development is the VoIP PBX, also known as IPPBX or IPBX, which uses Internet Protocol to carry calls. Most modern PBXs support VoIP.

Mozawala (28), a resident of Infinity Towers at Mazgaon, was arrested last Thursday on charges of spying for a foreign country. On Sunday, he was produced before a court and remanded to police custody till December 20. Crime Branch
sources said he was allegedly in touch with a foreign contact at the Pakistan embassy in New Delhi. Mozawala is suspected to be a spy for Pakistan’s ISI, and that he did a recce of the Indian Army’s cantonment area in New Delhi in mid-2010 and of an important location in Mumbai. He has been booked for forgery and spying.

“We have also recovered two blank certificates of ‘Inflight Management Training’ from him. This is why he has been charged with forgery. The certificates are fake,” the source said. Mozawala is in police custody till December 20.

“It’s too early to say whom Mozwala was in touch with at the Pakistani Embassy in New Delhi. The 15 passports recovered from his house belong to various people, including job seekers who wanted to go abroad. Mozawala owns a private tour and travel agency, and he might have got these passports for visa stamping,” the source said. The police found that Mozawala had an account in a nationalised bank with a total deposit of only Rs 780.

“A team of IB officers from Delhi has come to Mumbai since the recce was done in Delhi too,” the source said. The police have seized a computer, a hard disk, five DVDs, two pen drives, a mobile phone, sim cards, maps, pictures and documents from Mozawala. He had drawn maps related to the job assigned to him, a police source said.


The Times of India, December 15, 2010

ISI suspect may have been part of larger conspiracy

Mateen Hafeez TNN

Mumbai: Sleuths interrogating suspected Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agent Javed Mozawala said on Sunday that information collected by him about the army cantonment in New Delhi could have been part of a larger conspiracy. Security agencies fear Mozawala’s information was to be used for another 2008 Rampur Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp-like attack. However, Mozawala has not said anything about it.

Mozawala (28), a resident of Infinity Towers at Mazgaon, was arrested last Thursday on charges of spying for a foreign country. On Sunday, he was produced before a court and remanded in police custody till December 20. Crime Branch sources said that he was allegedly in touch with a foreign contact at the Pakistan embassy in New Delhi. Mozawala is suspected to be a spy for Pakistan’s ISI and did a recce of the Indian Army’s cantonment area in New Delhi mid-2010 and of an important location in Mumbai.

The police have seized a computer, a hard disk, five DVDs, two pen drives, a mobile phone, several sim cards, maps, pictures and documents from Mozawala. He had drawn some maps relating to the job assigned to him, a police source said.

Investigators said Mozawala was cooperating. “We are trying to find out whether he was given the code name of his contact or was he aware of the contact’s real identity. His bank accounts, and sale and purchase deals of the last two years are being scanned,” an officer said.

On January 1, 2008, suspected terrorists had attacked a CRPF camp in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, killing seven personnel and a civilian. According to the police, four terrorists, armed with sophisticated weapons, raided the CRPF’s group centre and fled minutes after the attack. The UP police had arrested over half a dozen suspects, including Mumbai-based Faheem Ansari, for that attack. The police are now trying to find out if Mozawala knew Ansari and had met him, to establish if the former had any connection with 26/11. “As of now, Mozawala’s role has not appeared in the 26/11 probe,” a source said.

Mozawala, who passed Class XII and speaks fluent English, visited Delhi thrice this year. Mozawala failed to convince the investigators on the purpose of his Delhi trips. The police are checking the records of the Delhi guesthouse where he had stayed.

Mozawala has been booked under Section 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and Section 469 (forgery for purpose of harming reputations) of the Indian Penal Code and under the stringent Official Secrets Act for leaking sensitive official information that could harm the nation.

Open Secret
Javed Mozawala was booked under the Official Secrets Act:
Section 3 (1) (c): Penalties for spying
Section 4 (2) (a):
Communications with foreign agents to be evidence of commission of certain offences Section 9: Attempts, incitements, etc


The Times of India, December 13, 2010

Household denies any contact with suspect

IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Javed Mozawala’s flat in a Mazgaon building

Mateen Hafeez TNN

Mumbai: When TOI visited the flat in Infinity Tower, Mazgaon, on Friday from where the Mumbai crime branch picked up alleged Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) operative Javed Mozawala, 28, a woman who opened the door denied knowing any such man. She denied that Mozawala was part of their family and insisted that it was a case of mistaken identity.

According to the FIR, the arrested Javed Abdul Gafoor Mozawala lives at 103, Infinity Tower, Mazgaon. While there are three wings at Infinity – wings A, B and C -- people at the premises said that Mozawala lives at 103-A.

When TOI visited the flat at 2.45 pm and knocked several times, nobody opened the door. At around 3 pm, a burqa-clad woman opened the inner door and complained, “Why are you people trying to create panic in our house? Journalists are coming to inquire about some Javed, but no one with that name stays here.” The woman, without opening the outer door, continued, “My husband is known as Zahid and not Javed. We have no connection with any Javed. You please go and inquire somewhere else.” However, a resident on the second floor said that a Javed lived in Flat 103-A.

When asked about the whereabouts of ‘Zahid’, the woman said, “He is not at home.” She further stated that the household had nothing to do with the police or any related agency. “Why are you people making our lives difficult?” the nervous woman asked.

One of the other residents of the building confirmed that Javed Mozawala lived in 103-A. “He would hardly go out. He appeared to mostly work from home. I have hardly seen him talking to anyone. There has never been any complaint against him since they came to stay here four months ago,” said the neighbour, who wished not be identified. Another neighbour also said that Mozawala was rarely seen, except for weekends, and that they didn’t know what he did behind his closed doors.

Mozawala is a Class XII passout who owns a travel agency in the city. He stays in a 340-square-foot 1-room-kitchen that was bought for Rs 30 lakh and is today worth around Rs 45 lakh. The building was redeveloped three years ago.
The burqa-clad woman left the flat at around 3.15 pm, locked it and went downstairs. On Friday afternoon, when media personnel tried to meet a man who is reportedly Mozawala’s brother, he only said his mother-in-law was ill and he was going to the hospital.

The Times of India, December 11, 2010

Suspect arrested in Mazgaon a spy for ISI?

Mateen Hafeez & S Ahmed Ali TNN

Mumbai: The Mazgaon resident who was remanded in police custody on Thursday on charges of spying against the nation was allegedly in touch with a foreign contact at the Pakistan embassy in New Delhi, according to a source in the security establishment.

Javed Abdul Gafoor Mozawala, 28, an Indian national, is suspected to be a spy for Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) who did a recce of the Indian Army’s cantonment area in New Delhi sometime in the middle of 2010. He is also suspected to have done a recce of an important location in Mumbai. “The police have seized a desktop computer, hard disk, five DVDs, two pen drives, mobile phone, several SIM cards, maps, pictures and some documents from Mozawala. He had also drawn some maps relating to the job assigned to him,” said a police source.

IB on Mozawala’s trail for 2 months
Mumbai: Mazgaon resident Javed Mozawala is suspected to be a Pakistani spy. “Importantly, Mozawala was in possession of some landline and mobile numbers of very important persons and places in India. It is yet to be established if he passed on these numbers to his contact or was going to do so,” said a source in Mumbai police. Mozawala allegedly met his contact several times in restaurants in Delhi.

It is learnt that Mozawala, a Class XII pass-out who speaks fluent English, would leave his Mazgaon house rarely. “He would spend most of his time at home sitting at the computer. We have learnt that he was in touch with his contact through GTalk. His hard disk has been seized and a mirror image has been obtained. While the hard disk will be sent to the Kalina lab for forensic analysis, the police will also try to uncover its contents through the mirror image,” said a cop.

It is learnt that city-based personnel of the National Technical Research Organisation, the country’s premier agency dealing in web crime and cyber terrorism, are also working on the case. Sources in the security establishment said that they were also examining a bank account and its financial transactions. “We suspect that he must have received money in this account or must have deposited money obtained through wrongdoing,” said an officer. Mozawala had also allegedly drawn some maps which were found on one of the five DVDs. “The two pen drives contain crucial information about some VVIPs and their contact details. We are still investigating the reason he had collected these numbers,” said the officer.

Mozawala owns a travel agency and moved into Flat 103-A, Infinity Tower, Mazgaon with his wife and two children four months ago. The Byculla police registered an FIR against Mozawala under Section 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating) and Section 469 (forgery for the purpose of harming reputations) of the Indian Penal Code and under the stringent Official Secrets Act for leaking sensitive official information that could harm the nation. Mozawala was produced before metropolitan magistrate V V Bambarde of the Esplanade court on Thursday and remanded to police custody till December 12.

A source said that Mozawala’s arrest began with an operation handled by the Intelligence Bureau (IB), which had been keeping tabs on the activities of a particular foreigner.

During the surveillance, IB officials learnt about Mozawala two months ago and since then began continuously monitoring him. The IB sleuths then provided information about Mozawala to the Mumbai crime branch. Armed with his address, crime branch sleuths began collecting more information.

When the crime branch decided to raid Mozawala’s flat, it first made sure it was safe for them to go ahead with an arrest. Sources said that in the daytime on Wednesday, crime branch teams spread out in the vicinity disguised as salesmen and representatives of utility services to study how to enter the building and understand the layout of the flat before barging in.

“At least three to four dozen armed policemen from the Criminal Intelligence Unit and members of the Byculla police barged into the flat on Wednesday and arrested him,” said a source.

Javed Mozawala stayed with his family in a plush flat in Infinity Tower in Mazgaon

The Times of India, December 11, 2010

ISI AGENT IN TOWN?

As Police Struggle To Uncover The Facts Behind The Navi Mumbai Terror Mail, The Mazgaon Arrest Shifts Focus To City

Mazgaon’s Mystery Man

Javed Abdul Gafoor Mozawala AGE: 28

EDUCATION: Class XII pass

FAMILY: Wife and two children

ADDRESS: Flat No 103-A, first floor, Infinity Tower, Mazgaon

OCCUPATION: Owns travel agency

BUILDING DETAILS: Infinity was redeveloped just three years ago and is said to be a relatively upmarket address with a few members of the Bohra community, though Mozawala is not a Bohra

FLAT DETAILS: The Mozawalas moved in four months ago into a 340-square-foot 1-room-kitchen that is reportedly worth around Rs 45 lakh today (Rs 13,235 a sq ft). It was bought for Rs 30 lakh

MYSTERY: ‘We didn’t know who this Mozawala was until Friday when we saw the electronic media outside our building. In the society, we hardly saw him, except for weekends. What he used to do behind his closed door we don’t know,’ said a neighbour

A PRIZE CATCH FOR COPS?

INVESTIGATION: Police have found three SIM cards with Mozawala. They have also found five DVDs, 2 pen drives, maps and documents. He allegedly did a recce of the army cantonment in Delhi and an important location in Mumbai. Sources said he made calls to someone in the Pakistan embassy in Delhi. The investigation began with the Intelligence Bureau, which passed on details to the Mumbai crime branch. A passport has been recovered, but police are unsure if Mozawala went to Pakistan

THE DENIAL: A woman at Flat 103-A, Infinity Tower, claimed to have no knowledge of Javed Mozawala

THE NEIGHBOURS: The immediate neighbouring flats are vacant and have interior decorating work going on. Others in the building hardly knew the Mozawalas, as the family came to the building just four months ago

FAMILY BACKGROUND: It is possible that previous generations of the family were involved in the socks business, hence the presence of ‘moza’ (socks) in the name
Artist’s sketch based on reporter’s description

The Times of India, December 11, 2010

ISI AGENT IN TOWN?

As Police Struggle To Uncover The Facts Behind The Navi Mumbai Terror Mail, The Mazgaon Arrest Shifts Focus To City

Mazgaon’s Mystery Man

Javed Abdul Gafoor Mozawala AGE: 28

EDUCATION: Class XII pass

FAMILY: Wife and two children

ADDRESS: Flat No 103-A, first floor, Infinity Tower, Mazgaon

OCCUPATION: Owns travel agency

BUILDING DETAILS: Infinity was redeveloped just three years ago and is said to be a relatively upmarket address with a few members of the Bohra community, though Mozawala is not a Bohra

FLAT DETAILS: The Mozawalas moved in four months ago into a 340-square-foot 1-room-kitchen that is reportedly worth around Rs 45 lakh today (Rs 13,235 a sq ft). It was bought for Rs 30 lakh

MYSTERY: ‘We didn’t know who this Mozawala was until Friday when we saw the electronic media outside our building. In the society, we hardly saw him, except for weekends. What he used to do behind his closed door we don’t know,’ said a neighbour

A PRIZE CATCH FOR COPS?

INVESTIGATION: Police have found three SIM cards with Mozawala. They have also found five DVDs, 2 pen drives, maps and documents. He allegedly did a recce of the army cantonment in Delhi and an important location in Mumbai. Sources said he made calls to someone in the Pakistan embassy in Delhi. The investigation began with the Intelligence Bureau, which passed on details to the Mumbai crime branch. A passport has been recovered, but police are unsure if Mozawala went to Pakistan

THE DENIAL: A woman at Flat 103-A, Infinity Tower, claimed to have no knowledge of Javed Mozawala

THE NEIGHBOURS: The immediate neighbouring flats are vacant and have interior decorating work going on. Others in the building hardly knew the Mozawalas, as the family came to the building just four months ago

FAMILY BACKGROUND: It is possible that previous generations of the family were involved in the socks business, hence the presence of ‘moza’ (socks) in the name
Artist’s sketch based on reporter’s description

The Times of India, December 11, 2010