Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 5: Delhi Police today arrested another Pakistani spy from border district of Rajouri—a Government teacher—taking total number of arrests made from the border district to four.
The teacher arrested from his house in an injured condition as he tried to escape during the raid has been identified as Mohammad Sabar son of Mohammad Hafiz, originally a resident of Kakora, Manjakote and presently putting up at Aitti, Fatehpur near Rajouri town. He was posted in Government Middle School, Thalli-II at Manjakote.
Official sources said the Delhi Police, which has yesterday arrested an ex-serviceman Munawar Hussain Mir from his house at Khablan, Thanna Mandi, today conducted raid at the house of Sabar at Aitti early this morning but found the house locked from outside.
As they knocked the door, the DP sleuths saw the teacher jumping from back side of the house in a bid to escape. However, he collapsed and got his foot injured in the fall. Soon, some people gathered there.
Police parties headed by SSP Rajouri Rajeshwar Singh reached the spot and helped Delhi Police in smooth arrest of Sabar. However, Sabar was taken to Rajouri hospital for first aid and then shifted to New Delhi along with Munawar. Sabar too has been booked under the Official Secrets Act.
This was the fourth arrest made by Delhi Police from Rajouri district in connection with the espionage racket headed by suspected ISI operative Kafaitullah Khan, a Lab Assistant.
Khan was the first person to be arrested from New Delhi on November 26, while he was heading to Bhopal to attend a religious congregation and allegedly recruit more spies, followed by the arrests of a serving BSF personnel Abdul Rasheed and a former Army Hawaldar Munawar Mir.
Sabar is believed to be the one through whom Khan met Rasheed, Munawar and his other associates, including the serving Army personnel for whom Delhi Police was conducting searches in Siliguri, West Bengal.
Sources didn’t rule out some more arrests in Rajouri based on the disclosures of four arrested spies.
PTI adds from New Delhi:
Both Munawar Mir and Khan were arrested by the 14-member team of the Inter-State Cell of the Crime Branch which rushed to Rajouri on Wednesday. They have been presented before a court there and shall be brought to Delhi on transit remand, said an official.
The police did not find any documents from Sabar’s possession. However, they claimed to have seized enough evidence against him — including Khan’s disclosure and telephonic conversations obtained from a CD — for the arrest, said the official.
Another police official, who is probing the money trail in connection with the alleged racket, said that the police have found that Khan had deposited Rs 5,000 twice in the bank account of Sabar.
However, these details are to be cross-examined with the ongoing probe in which it has emerged that Khan allegedly used to receive money from Pakistan via money transfers routed through Saudi Arabia and UAE.
Khan is believed to be more or less on a permanent payroll, the official alleged.
Sabar is believed to have received crucial information about troop movements along the borders in case of a war or a war-like situation between India and Pakistan from the suspect based near Siliguri, being hunted for by another eight-member team of Crime Branch.
He sent the information across the border to alleged intelligence operatives, a police source claimed.
“Meanwhile, during Mir’s interrogation it has emerged that he had served during Kargil war and was operating as a local worker for Police have not found any document from Mir’s possession but claimed that they had sufficient evidence — including telephonic conversation and other details — to arrest him, said the source.
The interrogation of Mir and Sabar may lead them to the alleged ISI source in the office of the Pakistan High Commission here, the source said.
The alleged ISI source at the High Commission was about to help Khan with a visa for travelling to Pakistan, where he was about to his spy counterparts and avail more resources and training in connection with the espionage racket, said police.
The police team sent to Rajouri is presently looking for a serving Army personnel whose name had come up during Khan’s interrogation and is believed to be a major node in the spying racket.
Khan, who is an alleged Pakistan Intelligence Operative (PIO) heading an espionage racket here backed by the ISI, was intercepted in Delhi on November 26. The police took him to Rajouri on transit remand from where they arrested Abdul Rasheed, said police.
Police claimed to have recovered secret and confidential documents from the possession of both, on the basis of which they invoked provisions of the Official Secrets Act.
Rasheed was then brought to Delhi and further interrogation revealed the name of four more suspects — three in Rajouri district, of which two have been arrested, and one in West Bengal’s Siliguri, police added.
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