JOIN USArrested spy leaked critical info to ISI agent in Delhi
Spy Sumer Khan, who was able to win over a Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) staffer for his espionage ring, was allegedly being tasked by an ISI agent in Pakistan High Commission in Delhi to get classified government information.
Sources said that Khan, arrested on February 24 after the intelligence agencies noticed that he was passing on information about the Air Force Pokhran exercise, was a frequent visitor to Pakistan to meet his relatives across the border.
Pakistan’ s ISI spotted in Khan a guillible man who could be converted into a human asset without raising much doubt as he had relatives on the other side of the border. They approached him by offering the bait of easy visa process for him and others.
For that Khan’s assigned contact offered him help through a man in the Visa section of the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi, who happened to be an ISI agent.
Since then Khan was given various assignment of collecting classified information that could be crucial for Pakistan and in return he was promised lucrative cash returns. Khan befriended union home ministry peon Surendra Kumar, who was attached to the foreigners division. The ministry peon was arrested Monday night after joint interrogation by the intelligence agencies and handed over to the Jaipur police. He was remanded to police custody for two days on Tuesday by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate of Jaipur.
Surendra is believed to have told the interrogators in Jaipur that he would hand over whatever material, sometimes photocopies and on other occasion originals of secret papers, he could lay his hands on in the foreigners division.
So far he has told the cops that he gave to ISI conduit details of the visits of important dignitaries to India, Look out Circular (LoC) details against Pakistanis barred from entering into the country and details of threat messages.
The arrest of the ministry staffer has prompted a security audit of the foreigners division to undo any damage that sensitive information leak could have resulted in.
Sources said that he was making good money not only from the ISI but also from others’ whom he would help to get their Pakistan visa expedited.
Another Pakistan-sponsored espionage attempt has set off an alarm in the security establishment as a call was made to a National Security Guards (NSG) Major seeking details of Hyderabad blasts.
The call is suspected to have come from across the border through internet telephony on the EPBX of the NSG office, to find out Black Cats’ whereabouts in Hyderabad. NSG chief Arvind Ranjan has ordered an inquiry though the agency claims that the Major did not share much information. The officers have been cautioned to verify the antecedents of callers before sharing information.
Previously, this tactic was used by Pakistani state actors in Jammu and Kashmir to seek information from Army units stationed at strategic locations.