OCBI blames state cops for goof-up S Ahmed Ali TNN Mumbai: The CBI has blamed the state police and the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for its website showing dead as well as jailed criminals as wanted. A fortnight after TOI highlighted the discrepancies, the CBI on Friday said it updates the data based on information from the other agencies. The CBI said its role is to transmit requests from various agencies to Interpol for publication of red corner notices (RCN), which Interpol publishes after satisfying itself that the request meets its standards. The CBI said that the RCN for Dawood’s dead brother Noora Kaskar, Mohammed Memon alias Iqbal Mirchi and Rajan Nikhalje alias Chhota Rajan were issued on the request of the state police. It said the RCN of slain terrorist Illiyas Kashmiri was issued on NIA request. “Kashmiri, Noora or Iqbal Mirchi may have been reported dead in various media reports, but neither the Maharashtra police nor the NIA made any request to Interpol wing of CBI for withdrawal of RCN, perhaps because their deaths are yet to be confirmed through official channels,” CBI chief information officer Kanchan Prasad said. A senior state police officer said the city crime branch had been sending confidential reports to the CBI regularly. “And yet the CBI is not updating?” the officer said. Prasad said Ahmed Lambu, a 1993 serial blasts accused, was on the run and had not been deported. The CBI was silent on Abdul Rashid Khan, whose name still appears in an RCN despite his arrest in 2010 by the city crime branch.