’I Spy, but for India’

Sudanese national with deportation orders says he's a whistleblower for Indian intelligence agencies like RAW in Pune; fears he will be killed the moment he goes to Sudan

'I Spy, but for India'

Sudanese national with deportation orders says he's a whistleblower for Indian intelligence agencies like RAW in Pune; fears he will be killed the moment he goes to Sudan

A Sudanese national, suspected of being an Islamic fundamentalist, has been ordered by the Ministry of Home Affairs to be deported to Sudan.

However, Abbas Mahmood Ebrahim (name changed) claims to be a whistleblower for the Indian intelligence agencies, including the Research and Analysis Wing, against terror networks in Pune and is shocked to have received deportation orders.

Abbas claims that the local authorities used his intelligence inputs to arrest a Sudanese national, who ran an illegal Islamic library in Ashoka Mews Society in Kondhwa in 2002.

7/11 connection

It may be recalled that the same Ashoka Mews was the nerve centre of the 7/11 serial train blasts in Mumbai.

An affluent Pune software engineer Mohammed Mansoor Asgar Peerbhoy had allegedly ran the "terror control room" for the Indian Mujahideen from his 1,200 sq ft flat here.

"I have also informed the intelligence of other Sudanese nationals who come to Pune on the pretext of studying, but go to Kashmir and Afghanistan to give arms training to terrorists," said Abbas.

With all the support he has lent to the Indian authorities, he is now on tenterhooks and thinks he will be killed by the current regime in Sudan as soon as he is deported. Abbas also indicated that he was tortured in Sudan and displayedu00a0 bruises on his body.

A Pune police special branch officer has already confiscated Abbas's passport.

Aware of the fact that he will be sent to Sudan as soon as the passport reaches the embassy, Abbas has written to the Under Secretary MHA requesting permission from him to stay in India until the current regime in Sudan ends.

He had also written to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in 2002 to which the UN replied that his refugee status was being considered and requested the government to extend "any help he needs".

Pramod Kumar Kapoor, the Ministry of Home Affairs section officer in New Delhi, who handles the Sudan desk, was unavailable for comment.