BSF trooper held for spying sent to 7-day police custody

November 30, 2015 04:49 pm | Updated November 17, 2021 01:04 am IST - New Delhi

BSF head constable Abdul Rasheed (R) and Kafaitullah Khan, who were arrested on the charge of supplying confidential information to ISI, being produced at the Delhi Police Crime Cell office, in New Delhi on Monday. Photo: R.V. Moorthy

BSF head constable Abdul Rasheed (R) and Kafaitullah Khan, who were arrested on the charge of supplying confidential information to ISI, being produced at the Delhi Police Crime Cell office, in New Delhi on Monday. Photo: R.V. Moorthy

A Delhi court on Monday sent in seven-day police custody Border Security Force (BSF) head constable Abdul Rasheed, who has been arrested on the charge of supplying confidential information to Pakistan’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Khanagwal remanded Rasheed in police custody till December 7 to allow Delhi Police to question him.

Rasheed, posted with the BSF’s intelligence wing, was arrested along with Kafaitullah Khan alias Master Raja of Rajouri district on the charge of obtaining secret information related to India’s national security and passing it on to the ISI.

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