ISI spies held at Howrah station

Tipped off by a retired army jawan, CID sleuths arrested two Bangla-deshi ISI agents from Howrah station on Wednesday. Secret defence documents, videos of fidayeen attacks and two gelatin sticks were found on them.

Sleuths believe the arrest of Alamgir Seikh and Sha-mim Akhtar will help bust a Pakistani spy network in the country. They had crossed the border illegally; intelligence agencies were looking for them since December 2005, when Pakistani ISI agents Ainul and Salim Waqar were arrested.

CID sources said the duo was trying to recruit ex-servicemen in Bengal. Alamgir, who had moved into his in-laws' house in Bagnan, offered ex-serviceman Aurobindo Biswas a lucrative security job in Bangladesh, but the jawan got suspicious when Alamgir sought military information.

Biswas said he did not know much, after which the duo lost interest in him. Confirmed that they had an ulterior motive, he informed CID. The Special Operations Group used Biswas as bait and asked him to call Alamgir and fix a meeting at Howrah station. The ISI agents walked into the trap on Wednesday morning.

Raids at the duo's hideouts yielded important documents on army bases in north India, details of army headquarters in Delhi, photographs and videos of army bases in the North-East, two Bangladeshi SIM cards and CDs of fidayeen attacks. Alamgir and Shamim have been remanded in police custody for 14 days.

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