New Delhi: Samajwadi Party MP Munawwar Saleem on Saturday sacked his personal assistant Farhat who has been held for supplying official documents to Pakistan High Commission official Mehmood Akhtar expelled from the country for running a spy ring out of Delhi.
Farhat, the PA of the Rajya Sabha MP, was detained on Friday night, sources in the Delhi Crime Branch said. His name came up during the questioning of Akhtar who was detained on October 27. Akhtar was let off after interrogation within hours owing to his diplomatic immunity and has since been declared "persona non-grata".
Meanwhile, sources told CNN-News18 that Akhtar has also revealed names of 10 Pakistan intelligence officers working out of the national capital. He used to travel in a Pakistan High Commission car 89 CD 105 to meet his contacts in public places including the Delhi Zoo from where he was nabbed. The car belongs to the trade counsellor at the Pakistan High Commission.
Delhi Police sources said Farhat had given "important documents" related to MEA, defence and shipping ministries for almost two and half years to Akhtar. He used to charge Rs 2 lakh for the job in installments.
Farhat first came into contact with ISI through a Pakistan High Commission official code named 'NK' in 1998 when he had gone to the HC for visa. NK cultivated him and asked him to provide annual reports of Ministry of Science & Technology, Water Resources and Civil Aviation.
NK died in 2000 but before that he was handed over to a certain Rana Sagheer, who later introduced him to IP Shamshed. He was given specific amount per every meeting for handing over documents.
Two others, Maulana Ramzan and Subhash Jangir, residents of Nagaur, Rajasthan, were also held along with Akhtar. Another accused Shoaib was detained in Jodhpur and brought to Delhi where he was arrested.
Further investigation revealed that Akhtar Joined ISI in February 2013 and was trained in spycraft at the ISI HQ in Rawalpandi. He told investigators that he was in touch with several Indians including an ISRO employee who later broke contact. He was also in contact with a barber in Jat Regiment.
After New Delhi declared Akhtar a "persona non-grata", Islamabad did a tit-for-tat move expelling a staffer of Indian High Commission in Pakistan for "conduct not in accordance with his diplomatic status".
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