Cops believe the racket will blow cover of sleeper cells

Move over James Bond chasing a member of a terror syndicate across Madagascar and then foiling a plan to bomb Boeing 747 in the Bahamas. The real story is here.

Stamp of terror: A copy of Mohammad Sayeed's Indian passport.u00a0Pic/Imtiyaz Khan

A 'mobile mechanic' is arrested at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. No, he was not a mobile mechanic, he was a driver. Correction, he was a Pakistani spy handled by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), who held a genuine Indian passport. But, the passport was issued on fake papers on a Lucknow address. Khalil, the yet-to-be nabbed Lucknow connection of arrested 'spy' Mohammad Sayeed, also got him a driving licence, again on fake papers. Then comes the revelation that Sayeed's primary responsibility was to 'measure' Delhi's flyovers and bridges. It may read like the narration of Shankar Mahadevan's Breathless song, but there is more to the story.

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