ATC sends alleged RAW agent to police custody

Suspect allegedly confesses to be working on payroll of Indian spy agency


Our Correspondent September 19, 2015
Suspect allegedly confesses to be working on payroll of Indian spy agency. PHOTO: PPI

KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) remanded on Saturday an alleged spy working for the Indian intelligence agency RAW, to police custody for two weeks.

The suspect, Mohsin Khan alias Kashif, was presented before the ATC-II by Sharae Noor Jehan police, who claimed that he 'confessed' to carrying out a series of bombings in the city seven years ago.

During initial interrogation, he confessed to planting six improvised explosives devices in Orangi Town and then blasting them in July 2008, said the officer. At least 50 people, including law enforcers, were hurt in the series of bombings.

The court sent the suspect to police custody on a 14-day physical remand and sought a progress report at the next hearing on October 5.

Meanwhile, another ATC extended the remand of Khan and his three other accomplices, Zafar alias Tension, Shafiq alias Pappu and Khalid Aman alias Anna, for three more days in a separate case.

This was the second time that their remand was extended by ATC-I as the investigators sought more time to sum up the interrogation. All four of them have been charged under the anti-terrorism law for attacking law enforcers with intent to killing them and hatching a conspiracy against the sovereignty of the state.

The men were arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department during a raid in Gulistan-e-Jauhar in late August.

The police papers claimed the suspects to be dangerous militants trained by RAW in different parts of India. They also claimed that the suspects had links with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and some of them have also been quoted to be employees of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board. According to the police, the suspects admitted to receiving funds from RAW through the brother of a former MQM  leader, Qamar Mansoor.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 20th, 2015.

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