Mumbai: While US national Ken Haywood, a suspect in the terror email probe, has safely returned to his hometown in Phoenix,  Arizona, Navi Mumbai resident Vikram Buddhi is still in the custody of US law enforcing agencies for the past two years.

What links Haywood and Buddhi is that they both were residents of Navi Mumbai. While Haywood was staying at Gunina building in Sanpada, Buddhi is a resident of sector 9, Vashi.

Buddhi, who was attending advanced engineering classes at Purdue's West Lafayette campus, faces an 11-count charge for alleged comments made in an Internet chat room in 2005 and 2006.

The indictment alleges that he made threats against  US Prez George W Bush, VP Dick Cheney and their wives. He also made threats against the then Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and called for the bombings of the American infrastructure.

"It is now legal under international law to bomb key sites in the USA. Iraqis! Give Anglosaxons the tit reaction for the tat action of Bush and the Republicans," Buddhi wrote in one posting, according to federal court records.

Captain Buddhi Kotasubbarao (67), a former Indian Navy Captain, who holds a PhD in Nuclear Technology from the IIT, is in the US fighting for his son's release.

Kotasubbarao said, "Our national motto is Satya meva Jayethe, truth alone wins. The false case instituted against my son, is a reflection of the several hidden dimensions of present day USA. Justice fails in USA much more badly than in India."

Their house in Vashi is locked and a resident said, "It is unfortunate that an intelligent student has to go thorough such an ordeal."


What's the connection?

* Both Ken Haywood and Vikram Buddhi were residents of Navi Mumbai

* A terror email sent to TV channels was traced to Haywood. While Buddhi was picked up for making hate remarks in an online chat

* Haywood was never formally arrested and fled the country. Buddhi has been languishing in prison
for the past two years