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Suspected mole entered India through Nepal; had maps of Hindon air base, Meerut cantonment
Paharganj a heaven for foreign backpackers in Delhi is in the news yet again for all the wrong reasons.
The central Delhi area hit the headlines after it was revealed that terror operative David Coleman Headley stayed in two Paharganj hotels, during his stay in India in March this year.
On Sunday, the special cell of the Delhi Police arrested a suspected Pakistani 'spy' from east Delhi who also stayed at a hotel in Paharganj before shifting to a house in Shahdra.
Like Headley, the man Mohammad Sayeed alias Aamir Ali alias Abdul might have been interested in the defence installations, as maps of Hindon air base and Meerut cantonment have been seized from his possession. He also had some incriminating "military documents".
US' Federal Bureau of Investigation had revealed that Headley along with his alleged accomplice Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Canadian citizen of Pakistani origin, was plotting terror attacks on the National Defence College in New Delhi.
Sayeed, who was running a small mobile repairing shop in Shahdra, was arrested by special cell sleuths while he was boarding a Dubai-bound flight at the Indira Gandhi International airport.
Sayeed infiltrated into India through the porous Nepal border in 2005.
"We arrested him on a tip off. He had been staying in Shahadra 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 and we are probing his links there too," said a senior special cell official.
The special cell has got Sayeed in ten-day judicial custody during which he will be taken to Lucknow.
Close watch
The Delhi Police have issued guidelines to hotel owners, especially those in Paharganj, to keep a strict watch over foreign guests and take following measures to ensure the same:
>>Installing CCTVs strategic places to capture entry and exit of each guest.
>>Frisking visitors with metal detectors
>>All guests must produce a valid ID-card proof to book a room.
>>Managers to record the contact numbers of all visitors.
>>Beat constables to visit the hotels to take the numbers, which will be cross checked.
>>Managers should report arrival of any foreign tourist to the Foreigner Regional Registration Office. | 
