New Delhi, May 18 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday admitted that a "genuine oversight" had led to the inclusion of the name of Wazhul Qamar Khan - a terror accused on bail and currently living near Mumbai - among India's "50 Most Wanted Terrorists" hiding in Pakistan, but said it was not a "monumental error".

 
 The senior Congress leader also took to task the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had blamed the home ministry for the goof-up in the list given to Pakistan and called it the "maximum level of incompetency".
 
 He taunted the BJP, saying that the "monumental error" was when then home minister L.K. Advani had said that he had no idea that his cabinet colleague Jaswant Singh had taken three Pakistani terrorists to Kandahar in 1999 in exchange for the passengers of the hijacked Indian Airlines plane.
 
 Addressing reporters, Chidambaram said : "Obviously there was a mistake. We are not blaming anyone."
 
 He said the Mumbai police "did not formally inform the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) about Khan's arrest". But the Mumbai police had informed the state's Intelligence Bureau about it. "That dot was not connected. The information was available but the dots were not connected," he said, adding the CBI should have removed his profile from the Most Wanted page of its website.
 
 Asked if there was any reaction from Pakistan on the goof up, he said : "None, because the list was given to them in 2007 also. His name occurs in that list also. The CBI will (do it) through Interpol they will convey (to Pakistan)."
 
 "This only required someone to be diligent and careful in compilation. While compiling somebody should have made sure that all the information available was brought to the person who was compiling. I think it's just a genuine oversight or a genuine mistake. But I would like to believe the NatGrid idea that I have floated will be helpful," he said.
 
 He was referring to the National Intelligence Grid (NatGrid), which is a centralised data system that will act as an umbrella organisation of investigating agencies to provide quick-time response to the demand for information on suspected terrorists and offenders.
 
 Asked whether the ministry would take any action for the mistake, Chidambaram dismissed it, saying he was "satisfied" that it was a "genuine oversight but it's not the monumental mistake that some of you are trying to make it out to be."
 
 ".. lists are exchanged every time we (Pakistan) meet. Pakistan also gives us a list. A genuine oversight, human error and one must accept that some degree of human error will happen," he clarified.
 
 The home minister also said they have no information whether Khan, who was out on bail and found to be living in Maharashtra's Thane district since last year, has been to Pakistan.
 
 Taking on the BJP, Chidambaram said : "Well, I think opposition must have moments like this to attack the government… but I recall that sometime ago the home minister of the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) said that he did not know that the three terrorists who were in custody were taken out of jail and taken out by the foreign minister to Kandahar, he said so I did not know. And then the foreign minister said, of course he knew, this decision was taken in the cabinet meeting and I informed him," he recalled.
 
 He was referring to the then BJP government in which Atal Bihari Vajpayee was prime minister, Advani home minister and Jaswant Singh foreign minister took the three terrorists in a special plane to bring back 160 passengers of the hijacked IC-814 plane.
 
 "Now, let me ask BJP leaders for whom I have great respect, if this is the maximum level of incompetence, what was that? Was that the maximum level of economizing on truth? And if this has brought embarrassment to the country, may I ask them did that statement not bring disgrace to the country?," he asked.
 
 Khan's name was 41st in the list of fugitives, who include underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, his 20 aides, 2008 Mumbai attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed and dreaded terrorist Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi.