It was on Friday that the Anti-Terrorist Squad of Gujarat police summoned Mansukhbhai Acharya and Raju Thakore, owner and driver of the taxi in which the terrorists had allegedly travelled to Akshardham, for questioning. Four days later, the two haven’t returned home. Also, they haven’t contacted their families in the past two days. ‘‘There has been no message from him for the past two days. If I call the ATS office, they say he is in Gandhinagar. If I call up the police there, they say both have been taken to Ahmedabad,’’ says Bhagwandas, Acharya’s youngest son. ‘‘We will wait for another day, then we will complain to senior officials,’’ says Bhagwandas. R.B. Brahmabhatt, SP, Gandhinagar, says that he has told his officials to let the two off. ‘‘The interrogations are over and the two will be allowed to return home tonight,’’ he adds, claiming the two men ‘‘were witnesses and we are treating them like witnesses. We provide them with a phone every two hours to make calls and anybody can come and meet them. They have not even been sleeping at the police station.’’ However, till 11.00 tonight, neither of the two had returned home nor had their families heard from the police.
