CIA inputs help nab ISI agent

22 September,2010 08:12 AM IST |   |  Abhishek Anand

Delhi police Special Cell arrests Pak spy from a village in the Capital


Delhi police Special Cell arrests Pak spy from a village in the Capital

Is this another form of outsourcing? With the intelligence set-up in India facing constant flak, Delhi police seems to have found an ally in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The Special Cell of Delhi police has arrested a Pakistani Spy from Samalkha village of Delhi. The CIA had passed on relevant information to authorities here. This is not the first time the Americans have helped Indian security agencies.

The accused Sajjad Haider alias Mohd Parvez was arrested on the 14th of this month from Delhi. The accused was carrying a fake Indian Visa.

"We received information from CIA about the Pakistani spy hiding in Delhi. Then we developed the inputs about the accused and arrested him from Samalkha village. Confidential documents related to Indian Army, a fake Indian driving license, an Indian PAN card on fake identity along with Western Union money transfer receipts, rent agreements, mobile SIM cards, phones etc have also been recovered from his possession and from his rented accommodation in Samalkha," said a police officer.

In the interrogation the accused allegedly revealed that he is a Pakistani national who had been sent on a spying mission to India by his Pak-based handlers and he had been asked to collect information regarding movements of armed forces and details of cantonment areas of Punjab.

"He was trained in military trade craft by ISI agents for five months at Lahore. After arriving in India he immediately gathered the forged documents. He revealed that he entered into India illegally via Indo-Bangladesh Border in September 2009 and came to Delhi. He went about the task of procuring forged identity documents for himself which would facilitate him in creating a base for carrying out his mission successfully.

He also revealed that as per the instructions of his Pakistani mentors, he had received the confidential documents/information from another source in Delhi and the same was to be sent to one of his Pakistani handlers via Dubai (UAE) through courier," the officer added.

JOINT OPERATION
On August 23, city cops arrested Mohammad Shah Jalal from Majnu Ka Tila in north Delhi and busted a fake visa racket in the process. The inputs came from CIA. "We received secret information from the CIA about a Bangladeshi national involved in human trafficking with fake Nepali visas to send citizens of his own country to other nations," said a police officer.
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