With the arrest of a school teacher from Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, the Delhi Police has so far arrested four persons in connection with ISI espionage racket, allegedly headed by suspected ISI operative Kafaitullah Khan.
Delhi police with the help of Rajouri police on Saturday raided Mohammad Sabar’s (school-teacher) house and apprehended him. “It is suspected that Sabar was informed about the raid by someone in advance as the police team found the door of his residence locked from outside. Suddenly, Sabar emerged from the roof and jumped in the backyard,” said a police official.
Though the police did not find any documents from Sabar’s possession, they claimed to have seized enough evidence against him; including Khan’s disclosure and telephonic conversations obtained from a CD for the arrest.
Sabar is believed to be the one through whom Khan met Rasheed, Mir and his other associates, including the serving Army man for whom a police team was sent to Siliguri in West Bengal, said a senior police official. He might also have received crucial information about troop movements along the borders in case of a war or a war-like situation between India and Pakistan from the suspect based near Siliguri, being hunted for by another eight-member team of Crime Branch.
He sent the information across the border to alleged intelligence operatives, a police source claimed. He is booked under provisions of the Official Secrets Act, said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav.
Khan was the first person to be arrested from New Delhi on November 26, followed by the arrests of a serving BSF personnel Abdul Rasheed and a former army havaldar, identified as Munawwar Ahmad Mir. Both Mir and Khan were arrested by the 14-member team of the Inter-State Cell of the Crime Branch.
Another police official, who is probing the money trail in connection with the alleged racket, said that the police have found that Khan had deposited `5,000 twice in Sabar’s bank account. However, these details are to be cross-examined with the ongoing probe in which it has emerged that Khan allegedly used to receive money from Pakistan via money transfers routed through Saudi Arabia and UAE.