Delhi Police sources have said that the two men arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had a strong network in the Capital.
A police source said that even though Kafaitullah Khan kept his visits to Delhi limited, he had recruited several persons here as well.
He added that in the days to come more arrests were likely in the Capital as well as elsewhere in the country.
Khan, a Pak intelligence operative, and his relative, Border Security Force head constable Abdul Rasheed, were arrested by the Delhi Police Crime Branch on charges of espionage.
“He had visited Delhi thrice since he came in contact with ISI in 2013. And though his visits were not frequent, he had enough people here to gather crucial information for him. He was trying to expand his network further and even when he was arrested he had planned to conduct recruitments in Bhopal,” said the source.
Khan was arrested from the New Delhi Railway Station here last week while he was on his way to Bhopal to attend Aalmi Tablighi Ijtima, an annual congregation of Muslims from all parts of the globe. It is suspected that he was trying to brainwash and recruit more people at the gathering.
It is learnt that Khan’s accomplice Mr. Rasheed, who was posted with his force’s intelligence unit in the Rajouri Sector, had access to sensitive information that he would pass on to Khan. From the two, the police have seized nearly 10 documents.
The source further said that even though no connection has been found with some of the other arrests made across India in espionage cases, but ISI was the common thread. According to him, it was after several attacks on the Army and Central Reserve Police Force in Jammu and Kashmir in recent times that the Central Intelligence Agencies suspected that some sensitive information was being leaked.
The police did not rule out the possibility of more jawans in the BSF being a part of the spying network.
Khan and Rasheed, the arrested duo, would be brought to the Capital on Monday.
