Pakistan spy racket busted: BSF jawan, ISI operative arrested from Jammu

Delhi Police Crime Branch claimed to have busted an espionage racket for allegedly providing confidential information to a suspected ISI operative.

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Delhi Police Crime Branch on Sunday claimed to have busted an espionage racket for allegedly providing confidential information to a suspected ISI operative. According to sources, apart from BSF personnel, one serving and one retired Indian Army lower rank staff are also involved in the racket that used to provide documents to the suspected ISI operative.

Meanwhile, Delhi Police have arrested a serving Border Security Force personnel and a suspected ISI operative from the railway station at Jammu. According to sources, two Army men are involved in the crime. They used to gather classified information from various offices and circulate them with the aid of the arrested suspected ISI operative identified as Kafaitullah Khan alias Master Raja (44), a resident of Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir.

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Police are also trying to detect possible links between the alleged ISI agents arrested from Kolkata.

"We are also looking for a retired Indian army personnel by the name of Munavar Hussain, who used to supply documents. We suspect that one serving Indian army personnel is involved in the racket," sources said.

An FIR registered by the Delhi Police on November 16 by Crime Branch states, "A secret informer met me in the office of ISC, Crime Branch, Chankyapuri, Delhi and gave me information regarding anti-national activities supported by Pakistan based intelligence operatives (PIO).

As per the information, the PIO is an Indian handler who is collecting information regarding the deployment of army and BSF in Jammu & Kashmir and passing the same across the border which can be hugely detrimental for national security.

The handler is believed to have a pan-India network of informers, who comprise of security personnel and private personnel."

According to Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Ravindra Yadav, the accused duo, who have been arrested has been identified as Kafaitullah Khan and BSF head constable Abdul Rasheed, were posted at the intelligence wing of Border Security Force in the same district. Kafaitullah Khan used to handle the Pakistan Intelligence Operative (PIO) and Rasheed was one of his chief sources.

The espionage racket run by them is supported by Pakistan's ISI, Yadav said, adding that the duo have been arrested under various provisions of the IPC and Official Secrets Act. Based on tip-offs, the Delhi Police Crime Branch had developed a network and a few suspects were identified, said a senior police official.

On Thursday, Khan had boarded a train from Jammu and was about to leave for Bhopal. He was apprehended by a police team at the railway station and documents having impact on national security were recovered from his possession, said the senior official.