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Ex-Army staffer held for helping ISI
By Our Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI, JAN. 2. A former Indian Army telephone operator and part of the spy ring smashed with the arrest of an ISI operative, Samayuddin, from Daryaganj in Central Delhi a fortnight ago, was arrested by the Special Cell sleuths from Deoband in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday.
The accused, Mohammad Islam (56), was a civilian telephone operator in the General Reserve Engineering Force. He was arrested following Samayuddin's disclosure that he (Islam) had given him a photocopy of Jawahar Tunnel linking Jammu and the Kashmir valley.
A special team was dispatched to Deoband which raided Islam's hideout. Several sensitive documents pertaining to the latest information on the deployment of defence forces in North India were recovered.
Islam said he had joined the Army in 1965 as an operator. Besides postings at Joshi Math and Bhutan, he was posted at Jawahar Tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir from 1978 to 1987 and had a fair idea of the tunnel.
He claimed that some years ago he was contacted by Iqbal Malik, an ISI agent now operating from Pakistan and native of Kairana, who motivated him. Iqbal promised him huge amounts of money in lieu of sketches of the tunnel. Islam prepared the sketches and delivered them to Samayuddin two years ago.
Samayuddin, a native of Bhawan in Muzaffarnagar, had come to Delhi around three months ago and was residing in a rented accommodation in central Delhi to create a base for spying. He was arrested while he was making a call to his contact in Lahore. Documents relating to the movements of the Army's Western Command were recovered from him.
Islam said he had sought voluntary retirement in 1999 and had been living in Deoband since. He confessed to having been in regular contact with ISI agents active in that area.
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