Lucknow, November 17: A joint team of Delhi Police and UP Special task force on Tuesday nabbed a key aide of arrested Pak spy Syed Amir Ali.
The arrest was carried out within hours of the Delhi Special Cell team bringing alleged Pakistani spy Jabbar alias Syed Amir Ali to Lucknow for identification as his genuine Indian passport was issued from here.
The Delhi Police is collaborating with Uttar Pradesh anti-Terror Squad to investigate his links who helped him procure documents on a fake address from Lucknow.
Although the identity of the arrested person has not been revealed but it he is suspected to be a key aide of Jabbar and had played a vital role in helping him procure a driver license and passport from Lucknow. And also helped him when he stayed in the city for a year.
Sources say that, he will be also, like Ali charged under the Official Secrets Act and the Passport Act.
Earlier yesterday, Ali was taken to the house at Vijay Khand in Gomti Nagar, where he lived during his stay in the city. The police confirmed from the landlord that Ali had stayed in the house between 2005 and 2006.
The police have also, reportedly, taken Jabbar to the house at Jamboor Khana, Qaiserbagh on Monday night. The address is mentioned in Ali’s passport as his residence.
The Uttar Pradesh police are clear in a fix after the revelation that a Pakistani national could easily procure a Indian passport from the state.
“The Lucknow police has been directed to probe as to how the Pakistani national, arrested from the Indira Gandhi International airport in Delhi yesterday, managed to obtain a passport on a fake address,” Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Brijlal told reporters here.
“During his stay, Ali managed to get a passport issued on the basis of vague address and got some other documents issued in his name on the basis of the passport,” the ADG said.
Jabbar was arrested on suspicion by immigration officials from Delhi’s IGI airport while he was about to board a flight to Damman in Saudi Arabia. He was later found to be carrying maps and photographs of defence and other sensitive installations in central and western Uttar Pradesh.
Police claims that Jabbar, who was staying in Shahdara area of Delhi in the guise of a man hailing from Lucknow, belongs to Karachi. He was working as a technician in a mobile phone repair shop in Mansarovar Park in north-east Delhi.
Investigators have learnt that he entered India through Nepal five years ago. He stayed in Lucknow during 2005-06.
—Agencies