2 Pak infiltrators arrested, planned to set up ISI ring
Two Pakistani nationals, including a woman, were arrested from the New Delhi Railway Station by the special cell of Delhi police on December 5 for entering India illegally at the bidding of Pakistan’s spy agency with the motive of setting up a spy ring.
The investigating officer claimed that the two accused had entered India on the directions of Pakistan’s notorious spy agency ISI with the aim to settle the arrested woman as a Resident Agent in India.
The accused, identified as Imran, 40, and Soofia Kanwal, 38, both residents of Karachi, were apprehended from the New Delhi Railway Station on December 5 on a tip-off. They had entered the country from Nepal border without any legal documents.
“The ISI approached Imran after his textile business failed and told him that they would provide him monetary support if he would work for them. In March 2011, he was asked to go to India and settle a lady as a Resident Agent in India,” said deputy commissioner of police (crime) Ashok Chand.
DCP Chand said Imran originally belongs to Ahmedabad, Gujarat, but had migrated to Pakistan in 1988, settled there and acquired Pakistani citizenship.
“Along with Kanwal, he entered India and they were to proceed to Agra, where he was to meet one associate. They would have received further instructions upon reaching Agra. We have identified his associate and raids are being conducted at various places to apprehend him,” Mr Chand said.
The passports of Imran and Kanwal issued by authorities in Pakistan without any Indian VISA or any stamp of entry into India, national identity card of Imran, citizenship card of Kanwal, a driving license of Gujarat in the name of Imran, an election identity card issued in the name Imran and other documents were recovered from them, DCP Chand said.
The two have been remanded to police custody for 14 days by a city court. During an in-camera proceeding, chief metropolitan magistrate Vinod Yadav remanded the two Pakistani nationals to police custody.
The court handed over the accused duo to the police on the prosecution’s plea that their custodial interrogation was required to unravel their networks and nefarious plans, said a police official, privy to the proceedings.
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