How did he get an Indian passport?

Police on the trail of local contacts of alleged Pakistani spy

How did he get an Indian passport?

Police on the trail of local contacts of alleged Pakistani spy

With the investigations into the alleged Lashkar terror plots in India still on the burner, the arrest of a Pakistani spy who was found in possession of an Indian passport has the cops in a fix.

Mohammad Sayeed alias Aamir Ali who was arrested from an east Delhi locality was taken to Lucknow on Monday to identify his local contacts in the Uttar Pradesh capital.

The police are also investigating into the various calls he made to Pakistan from local PCOs in Lucknow during his stay there. Sleuths of the Delhi Police special cell took him around to various locations in the city to bust his local contacts.

"After coming to India in 2005 he had gone abroad once to get an Indian identity card/document. It seems that somebody there directed him to a local contact in Lucknow to obtain a passport. We are chasing this local contact which will help us to get more leads in the case," sources in the special cell said.u00a0

Meanwhile, the Uttar Pradesh police have also ordered a probe into how a Pakistani national arrested by security agencies in Delhi on spying charges was issued an Indian passport, calling it a serious lapse.

Brij Lal, Additional Director General of Police, Law and Order (Uttar Pradesh) said, "The Lucknow police has been directed to probe as to how the Pakistani national, arrested from the Indira Gandhi International airport in Delhi on Sunday, managed to obtain a passport on a fake address."

Sayeed had been remanded to ten days police custody.

Case so far
The Special Cell of the Delhi Police arrested Mohammad Sayeed alias Aamir Ali alias Abdul from east Delhi on Sunday, who also stayed at a hotel in Paharganj before shifting to a house in Shahdara.

Maps of Hindon air base and Meerut cantonment were seized from his possession. The suspected Pakistani 'spy' also had some incriminating "military documents".

Sayeed, who was running a small mobile repairing shop in Shahdara, was arrested by special cell sleuths while he was boarding a Dubai-bound flight at the Indira Gandhi International airport.

He had been staying in Shahdara for the last four years. Some time ago he had fled the country and returned a while later to get an Indian identity card. He had also stayed in Lucknow for some time. He infiltrated into India through the porous Nepal border in 2005.

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