A Delhi court on Thursday extended till December 10 the police custody of Kafaitullah Khan, who was arrested for allegedly spying for Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI.
Khan, 44, was produced before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Khanagwal after expiry of his police remand and the crime branch of the Delhi Police sought his further custodial interrogation, saying it was needed to unearth the larger conspiracy.
Police told the court that Khan, who was working as an assistant librarian in a high school in Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir, was in regular touch with a Pakistan-based ISI operative named Faisal and he used to pass sensitive information to him.
On being asked by the court regarding the money paid to Khan in lieu of supplying the documents, police said he used to get `40,000 to `60,000 depending on the nature of the information. Also, police said various sensitive documents have been recovered from Khan and he was required to be confronted with the arrested co-accused Abdul Rasheed, a BSF head constable, in this regard.
According to police, Khan collected information from Rasheed and gave it to Pakistan-based ISI. He will also be interrogated about the whereabouts of his associates.
Seeking further police custody of the accused, police said he was required to be taken to various places in Jammu and Kashmir and Darjeeling in West Bengal for further probe in the case as Rasheed, who was posted as a head constable in the intelligence unit of the BSF headquarter at Jammu, was arrested on the basis of Khan’s interrogation.
On November 30, the court had remanded Rasheed to seven days police custody in connection with the case. Khan was arrested in connection with the case at New Delhi railway station while he was on his way from Jammu to Bhopal on November 26.