SLEUTHS SEW UP KHADIM'S CASE 

Calcutta, May 30 :    Calcutta, May 30:  Nearly a year after the kidnap of Khadim's vice-chairman Parthapratim Roy Burman, the CID will finally bring the curtain down on its investigations into the sensational abduction case on Friday, when it submits its chargesheet in court. What had started off as a probe into a crime by local dons took on international ramification when the sleuths traced the mastermind to Dubai and linked him to the attack on the American Center. Quietly working behind an array of assumed identities, Aftab Ansari, alias Farhan Malik, had built up a terror empire in the Gulf by networking with Pakistan and Afghanistan-based jihadis and funnelling ransom money to further the cause. 'It is time to end the case,' said IG, CID, Partha Bhattacharya, on Thursday. 'There are some people involved in this crime who are not behind bars and it may be impossible to get them, as they are in hiding either in Pakistan or Bangladesh.' Chief among them are the four 'executors' - including Sadaquat, who was riding the motorcycle during the American Center shootout - who had come to the city from Mumbai to carry out the abduction that Ansari had planned, along with his 'chief of operations' in India, Asif Reza Khan. But night-club dancer Swati Pal, the person who played the most significant role in the unmasking of Ansari, has been let off the hook. She is the 'star witness', who will help sew up a watertight case against the international criminals. It was Pal, along with boyfriend Abdur Rehman, Ansari's liaison man in Mumbai, who revealed that the person hiding behind the name of Farhan Malik was actually Aftab Ansari. 'Swati was not involved in the crime. Her boyfriend was,' said Bhattacharya. 'So, we shall not be prosecuting her.' The dancer, who had hit the headlines at the time of her arrest, is now in hiding, shielded by the police. A few others, including Pal's husband Jamil Ahmed, are not being prosecuted, either because they are innocent or because there is insufficient evidence. But the list of those being prosecuted is long. Besides crime mastermind Ansari, the others who figure in the prosecution list are: Naba Mondal: Roy Burman's driver, who was behind the wheel of the Tata Safari at the time of the abduction. He has been charged with delay in informing the police and thereby, giving the abductors time to make a clean getaway Chunnu, alias Mohammad Tasleem: As the don of Tiljala, he was the 'facilitator' who provided sanctuary to the abductors, who had come in from Mumbai and Delhi to carry out the kidnapping Shona and Naushad: They had helped as henchmen of Chunnu Rabindranath Das: Operating out of his ashram in Salt Lake, police say he was the 'spotter' who had identified Roy Burman as a possible target. He had known the Roy Burmans since the time they were visitors to his Bangur ashram Abdur Rehman: Ansari used to run several of his business establishments in Dubai in Rehman's name Altaf Quereshi, Abdul Karim, Pawan Maheshwari, Vinod Tapadiya: They are some of the hawala operators who, police say, had channelled the ransom money Happy Singh: He had not only arranged for the Maruti 800 in which Roy Burman was whisked away, but was manning the command centre in Gorachand Lane at the time of the abduction Jamaluddin Naseer: He was part and parcel of the kidnap operation and was involved in the American Center attack Last but not the least, there are two more names that figure in the chargesheet, neither of whom is alive: Asif Reza Khan, killed in an 'encounter' with the Gujarat police; and Zahir, alias Wajed, who was shot dead by a Delhi police team in Hazaribagh.