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3_ISI_=27recruiting=27_agents_nabbed?Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:24:17 -0000 - The Indian Express
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February 3, 1999
Title: 3 ISI 'recruiting' agents nabbed
Author: Express News Service
Publication: The Indian Express
Date: February 3, 1999
There Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agents on a
special mission to recruit youth from the city were nabbed at
Kandivli on Monday evening.
According to Additional Commissioner of Police (North-West)
Rakesh Maria, whose squad effected the raid, the trio had arrived
in Mumbai to recruit cadres for the ISI. They had also planned
to instigate cross-sectarian violence and perpetrate disruptive
activities in the city, he said. The trio, ring leader Sayed
Abbas Hussein Zaidi, Manan Hussein and Rashid Zaire, was arrested
after the squad, who were expecting them, cordoned off the area
adjoining Kandivli railway station at around 8.20 pm.
Police have recovered a loaded US Army Remington pistol a Webly
Scott pistol with six live cartridges and three Pakistani
passports. They also have evidence of telephone calls made to
underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's brother Anees and an airline
ticket.
Investigations reveal that the trio travelled from Karachi to
Dubai in October last year, when they were introduced to Dawood's
brothers Anees and Kayum by an ISI agent, Iqbal Bhai. They were
also given currency amounting to Rs 1 lakh and asked to execute
certain instructions pertaining to recruitment and subversive
activities in India. While Zaidi arrived at New Delhi on
November 2, 1998, his associates sneaked into the country via the
Wagah-Hatari outpost in Punjab on October 26 and November 23. In
New Delhi, they were contacted by local agents, who provided them
with weapons and Rs 1 lakh. Zaidi flew to Mumbai on December 4
on an Air-India flight using the alias Raju Patel.
"Once the trio arrived in Mumbai, they, scouted around for base
in the suburbs Also, their visas had expired and they were in the
process of assuming new identities," Maria said. Investigations
indicate that the trio had been trained in terrorist activities
as well as collecting and analysing sensitive in formation.
They also told police that they had stayed at Mayar Nagar at Mira
Road and Kutchee Memon Colony at Malad.
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