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Publication: The Times
of India
Date: December 6, 2000
In a major catch, sleuths
of the military intelligence and Delhi Police have nabbed a Pakistani ISI
agent assigned the task of gathering sensitive information about the Indian
Army and seized explosives, including 10 kg of RDX, and several incriminating
letters from him.
Khalid Mehmud alias Sajjad
alias Sanjeet Singh, a native of Dharampura in Lahore, was arrested by
officials of the military intelligence and city police's special cell in
a joint operation from the Badarpur area of South Delhi on Tuesday night,
deputy commissioner of Delhi Police (special cell) Ashok Chand said.
Ten kg RDX, two AB timers,
two detonators and "some letters containing sensitive information alleged
to have been written in secret ink" was recovered from him, he said.
"Mehmud, who entered
India in 1994, was assigned the task of developing information about army
goods trains, canals and road networks," Chand said.
Asked whether the RDX
was meant for carrying out blasts in the Capital on the eighth anniversary
of demolition of Babri Masjid at Ayodhya on Wednesday, Chand replied in
the negative and said the explosive was given to him for "safe custody".
During preliminary interrogation,
Mehmud confessed to have collected and passed on "sensitive" information
about military installations in Bhatinda and Jalandhar in Punjab.
"He came to Delhi in
1999 and was cultivating contacts," Chand said, adding further investigations
were on. PTI
