A 23-year-old man was arrested during a joint operation by Anti-Terrorists Squad 0of UP and Military Intelligence from Varanasi on Sunday for allegedly passing on sensitive information (photos) to ISI agents in Pakistan and being in constant touch with them.
After Rashid Ahmad was netted by the joint team, the sleuths recovered a mobile phone from him that was used to send photographs and video clips of vital Army installations and CRPF camps to Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agents in Pakistan.
Preliminary investigations revealed that Rashid Ahmad had been to Pakistan twice.
Ahmad was produced in a Varanasi court on Monday and the ATS sought him on remand for questioning. The court granted three days’ remand which would start from 10 am on Tuesday.
An ATS official said that Ahmad would be interrogated thoroughly during the remand period.
The sleuths will try to find out Ahmad’s connection with the ISI in Pakistan, persons whom he had met during his visit to Pakistan, his associates living in India, persons whose name and cell phone numbers were found in his phone’s contact book, his target, details of money and gift given to him by the ISI for the work he was assigned etc.
