LUCKNOW: A Lucknow courtroom has sentenced ISI agent Aftab Ali, who was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (UPATS) and Navy Intelligence in 2017 for spying, to 5 years’ imprisonment.
Aftab was accused of sending info associated to the Indian Army to an ISI handler in lieu of cash.
After analyzing the proof and the chargesheet submitted by the ATS, the particular NIA courtroom awarded a five-year sentence to Aftab and in addition imposed a penalty of Rs 4,800.
A senior ATS officer mentioned that Aftab (in his late 20s) was arrested on Might 3, 2017. “We obtained info that Aftab was in contact with the Pakistan Excessive Fee in Delhi and used to go on very important info to ISI handlers in Pakistan,” he mentioned, including that Aftab was charged for dishonesty, forgery for goal of dishonest and underneath related sections of the Legal Regulation (Modification) Act and the Official Secret Act. “By way of surveillance and from a cell phone recovered from him, we collected proof of his go to to Pakistan in 2016 and his coaching in Karachi. Aftab’s title had surfaced throughout questioning of a gaggle of males arrested from Lucknow, Hardoi, and Sitapur for spying on army models in Jammu & Kashmir,” the officer mentioned.
The ATS discovered that Ali had visited border cities in Punjab to movie the motion of military troops. Moreover chatting with an ISI agent, Meherban Ali, Aftab met an ISI handler in Pakistan and in addition obtained directions from a person posted in Pakistan Excessive Fee in Delhi. ATS had additionally discovered proof to show that Aftab was continuously sending categorised info to his Pakistani handlers when India carried out a surgical strike. “In early October 2016, some military models have been moved to J&Okay and Punjab from the Central Command. Whereas analyzing the convict’s cellphone, we discovered that he had handed on details about the variety of armymen and trains that they had boarded,” the officer mentioned.
ISI handler Meherban Ali interacted with Aftab earlier than and after the surgical strikes. Meherban was among the many group of six males who have been pulled out of the Pakistan Excessive Fee in November 2016 for being part of an espionage ring.
Investigations revealed Aftab had gone to Pakistan on a sound visa in Might 2014 on the pretext of visiting his ailing maternal grandmother. Previous to this, Aftab visa software had been rejected thrice and Meherban Ali lured him into the spying ring by promising him visa via his connections within the Pakistan Excessive Fee.
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