Mumbai/New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) Wazhul Qamar Khan, one of the "most wanted" fugitives, is actually living in Thane on bail and not hiding in Pakistan as claimed in India's list of 50 runaway terrorists given to Islamabad. He appeared before the media Tuesday, prompting an embarrassed government to order a probe into the goof-up.

 
 As the union home ministry in Delhi went into a tizzy, the Maharashtra government was asked to look into the process of how the list was prepared and who all were involved in compiling the list of 50 most wanted terrorists allegedly hiding in Pakistan.
 
 In Maharashtra, the government and police were at a loss over how and why Khan figured in the list that was handed over to Pakistan during home secretary level talks in Delhi in March.
 
 It was made public last week. 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.
 
 Khan himself is flummoxed. "Not only am I not a wanted any longer, I am very much living in Thane city's Wagle Estate locality. I am currently awaiting trial in several cases for which I was arrested last year," a distraught Khan told IANS.
 
 He was released on bail last July after he was arrested in May for his alleged involvement in the 2002 and 2003 terror bombings in Mumbai and its suburbs. He has been living and working in Thane since.
 
 Journalists lined up outside his residence after a national newspaper reported that Khan was in India and not in Pakistan, as claimed in the list.  After the expose, his phone has been buzzing with calls from journalists from across the country for television interviews.
 
 Khan, 42, a labour contractor, lives in the middle-class locality along with his paralysed mother Mobia Begum, wife Yasmin and their five children.
 
 He is now worried and fears that the government goof-up may affect his job.
 
 "I am now worried that this could affect my work as a labour contractor. I may not get new contracts from builders and labourers may avoid me. It will spell doom for my livelihood," Khan said.
 
 He claimed that though the list claims he is hiding in Pakistan, but in fact he has never been to that country.
 
 Khan is accused of involvement in at least four terror blasts and is now awaiting trial for his role as a foot soldier in them. He maintained his innocence. "I have been framed by the authorities."
 
 He is accused of transporting and placing the explosives at the targeted sites for the explosions at Mumbai Central railway station in December 2002 and in Vile Parle, Mulund and Ghatkopar areas in January, March and July, respectively, the following year.
 
 Tuesday being a public holiday, Maharashtra home department and police officers in Mumbai were not available for comment on the circumstances under which Khan's name figured on the list.
 
 But home ministry sources in Delhi said they were seeking a report from the state police about the goof-up and also the status of his case and his current location.
 
 The sources said it appeared that there was some "lack of coordination" between the Anti-Terrorist Squad of the Maharashtra Police and the state home department and other agencies involved in preparing the list. They said Khan's name was forwarded by the state government to the union home ministry.