According to the police, Kafaitullah Khan, has a counterpart in Pakistan from whom he used to receive his instructions.
Some staffers of the Pakistan High Commission are under scanner, the Delhi police said today after a spy ring with links to Pakistan intelligence was busted over the weekend with the arrest of five persons.
Four of the arrests were made in Jammu and Kolkata on Sunday -- one of the men arrested was a personnel of the Border Security Force. Their handler Kafaitullah Khan -- arrested from Delhi on November 26 -- had links with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, the police had said.
Without giving too many details, the police said Kafaitullah Khan was supposed to meet a high commission staffer today, who was to help him get papers to visit Pakistan.
The police had intended to lay a trap and nab the man when he came to meet Kafaitullah Khan today. But the plan, sources told NDTV, got foiled after the news of the arrests were leaked on Sunday evening.
The leak, the sources said, probably occurred when the Delhi Police team went to Jammu to arrest the BSF man after questioning Khan.
The racket, the police said today, was one for two years. Kafaitullah Khan was under orders to recruit insiders from the army who would leak intelligence. BSF head constable Abdul Rasheed -- a relation he had roped in -- was posted with the intelligence wing, the police said.
Kafaitullah Khan - who worked as a library assistant in a senior secondary school in Rajouri district - had come in contact with the ISI after he had gone to Pakistan in 2013 to visit his cousins. On his return, he started cultivating sources in the Indian army and the BSF.
Kafaitullah Khan, the police said, has a counterpart in Pakistan from whom he used to receive his instructions.
Information was largely passed through e-mail, Whatsapp and Viber networks, with the handler being given tasks concerning the deployment of security forces and Air Force Operations, a police officer had said on Sunday.