Central security agencies have claimed that Pakistani spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had plans to carry out terror attacks on two foreign consulates in India, with evidence for this reportedly given by a Sri Lankan national arrested from Chennai during his interrogation.
Official sources claimed on Sunday that Sakir Hussain told his interrogators he had been hired allegedly by an official in the Pakistani High Commission in Colombo as per alleged ISI plans to conduct reconnaissance of the US Consulate in Chennai and the Israeli Consulate in Bangalore.
Hussain was arrested on April 29 in a coordinated operation involving various countries including a South East Asian nation. He is reported to have told interrogators that the Pakistan’s spy agency was planning to send two men from Maldives to Chennai, and that he had to arrange for their travel documents and hideouts.
Hussain’s name cropped up during an investigation in a South East Asian country, which tipped off a central security agency in India about possible attacks on US and Israeli consulates, said the sources.
An immediate surveillance led investigators to Husain, who had been constantly shifting base in neighbouring Sri Lanka, prompting the sleuths to seek cooperation of the island nation, said the sources.
After Hussain’s arrival in Chennai, he was picked up and subjected to sustained interrogation, during which he spoke about a possible terror strike on the two consulates, claimed the sources.