Handler invited spy to Pak, say police

NEW DELHI: Dec 1 , 2015, dhns

Espionage ring: Spy was told to contact 'people' in high commission

A day after the arrest of a serving Border Security Force (BSF) personnel and an ISI operative for their involvement in an espionage racket, the Delhi Police on Monday claimed that the operative was invited to Pakistan by his handler there and was told that he would be given assistance by his people at the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi.

The operative, however, denied knowing the identity of the person with whom he was supposed to meet at the High Commission.

“Kafaitullah Khan was invited to Pakistan by the handler and was told that their people at the Pakistan High Commission will help him. He is not aware of the contact of the person concerned at the High Commission. They were supposed to tell him at appropriate time,” said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Ravindra Yadav.

He was given specific tasks by his handler, like the deployment of security forces and Air Force Operations in India,’’ he added. Khan was directed to apply for a Pakistan visa by his Pakistani handler. 

He was asked to meet a contact of his handler near the Pakistan High Commission and hand over a passport and a recommendation letter to him. 

The recommendation letter was recovered from his possession which has been addressed to the Pakistan High Commissioner. All the logistic support was to be provided by the contact whom he had to meet near the High Commission, police said.

Yadav also said that Khan’s associate Abdul Rasheed used Whatsapp, Viber and e-mail to pass on information to his Pakistani handler while he was working at the intelligence wing of the BSF. 

The Crime Branch of Delhi police had on Sunday arrested Kafaitullah Khan, 44, a resident of Rajouri district in Jammu & Kashmir, and a BSF head constable Abdul Rasheed, posted at the intelligence wing of BSF in the same district.