Delhi police on Saturday arrested an aide of Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Munawwar Saleem in connection with the espionage ring run by a Pakistani high commission official, which was uncovered earlier this week.
Delhi crime branch officials said they detained Farhat, an aide of SP Rajya Sabha MP Saleem, late last night. Farhat is currently being interrogated.
On Wednesday, police caught Pakistan high commission official Mehmood Akhtar along with two Indians identified as Maulana Ramzan and Subhash Jangir at the Delhi Zoo while they were exchanging sensitive defence documents. It was discovered they were running a spy ring for Pakistan’s spy agency ISI.
Akhtar was declared persona non grata and asked to leave the country within 48 hours. Subhash and Maulana were arrested on charges of sharing of sensitive information, defence documents and deployment details of the BSF along the India-Pakistan border, with the ISI. The two were sent to 12-day police custody.
