Security up at key army sites after ISI agent’s arrest

THE SUSPECTED ISI AGENT, WHO HAS BEEN REMANDED IN 14-DAY JUDICIAL CUSTODY, TOLD THE POLICE THAT ISI WORKS LIKE ISIS.

LUCKNOW: Security has been beefed up at key army locations like the sensitive Bareilly cantonment following the arrest of an ISI agent from near Meerut cantonment railway station by the special task force on November 27.

The suspected ISI agent, who has been remanded in 14-day judicial custody, told the police that the Pakistani ISI works like ISIS.

A resident of Islamabad Mohammad Kalam alias Aijaz had reportedly stayed in Bareilly on a fake identity. The STF told the CJM court that Aijaz was a spy who was passing on the country’s secrets to Pakistan. His arrest and subsequent revelations have alerted the country’s security and intelligence agencies. “Since sensitive documents have been found on him, including crucial maps of key and strategic locations the security has been beefed up around army locations and establishments like in Bareilly and nearby districts,” a senior intelligence officer said. The officer said after the terrorist attack on CRPF camp in Rampur a few years back, there was no question of relaxing one’s guard in light of the alleged ISI agent’s arrest and the subsequent revelations made by him. Sources said among the documents that were carried by the Pak agent at the time of his arrest include details about army locations in Bareilly. It has been revealed that the agent was an expert in photography and video mixing. He had taken a house on rent in Bareilly near railway station, that too without any ID proof. The house that he took on rent belonged to a woman named Rukhsana. According to the STF, Aijaz originally hails from the Irfanabad area of Islamabad, Pakistan. He was trained by the ISI and was sent to Bangladesh from Karachi with a Pakistani passport in January 2013. On February 9, 2013 with the help of Probeen, a Bangladeshi national, Aijaz sneaked into India and reached the house of Muhammad Irshad of South 24 Pargana, West Bengal.