Delhi Police Probe Pak High Commission Worker’s Part in Espionage

Pakistan High Commission employee suspected to be involved in the espionage racket, say Delhi police.

(Photo: PTI)

A Pakistan High Commision employee is under the scanner of Delhi Police probing an espionage racket in which an alleged ISI operative and a serving BSF personnel have been arrested.

The serving BSF head constable Abdul Rasheed was remanded in police custody till December 7 by a Delhi court onMonday.

The court questioned the police if a senior official was involved in the racket,during the court proceedings.

Kafaitullah Khan alias Master Raja, an alleged handler of the Pakistan Intelligence Operative (PIO), was in touch with an ISI operative in Pakistan who had told him that a source in the Pakistan High Commission will help him secure visa to travel to Pakistan, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav said

Once we get some leads with further interrogation of the accused duo arrested, we shall have to approach the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) for their permission to question staff at the High Commission’s office.

<b>Ravindra Yadav, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime)</b>

Even though the person has not been identified, he is suspected by the Delhi police to be of the ranks of a Diplomat.

The meet and help for visa was supposed to happen in Bhopal. But Khan was arrested on his way to Bhopal, on Thursday.

Khan was also supposed to attend a religious congregation and recruit youths for the espionage racket, Yadav said.

During interrogation, Khan, a native of a village in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, disclosed about his cousin, Abdul Rasheed, who was posted as a head constable in the intelligence wing of Border Security Force (BSF), police said.

The Delhi Police is also trying to track the money trail from Pakistan to India – routed through the Middle East, to pay off spies operating in a suspected pan-India network.