PAK national gets 6 years for spying, overstay
A Pakistani national was sentenced to six years in jail by a Delhi court for staying here illegally and spying for his country. Additional Sessions Judge Rajneesh Kumar Gupta convicted 33-year-old Irfan Kausar after it was proved that he was a Pakistani national and was found in possession of several sensitive military documents. The court, however, let off his two other accomplices for lack of evidence.
“The accused Irfan Kausar had collected the ‘offending documents’ for the purpose prejudicial to the safety and interest of the state,” the court said, while jailing Irfan. Irfan was arrested by the Crime Branch of the city police on September 7, 2005, from Takshak Cyber Cafe at Mohammadpur village, near Bhikaji Cama Place in south Delhi, while sending out some sensitive military information through email. During the probe, he was found to be a native of village Uggu Chuck in Gujrawala district of Pakistan. The police told the court that he had sneaked into country through Nepal and was living under the assumed name of Ashok Kumar.
A clutch of sensitive documents recovered from his possession included military information in his writing, 21 photographs of prohibited military area, some sketches, ID card of Ambala Cantt military hospital, besides proof of conversion of $200 into Indian currency.
The police also arrested his alleged accomplices, Minhaj of Bhajanpura in north east Delhi and Mohammed Ramzan of Maler Kotla in Punjab. While Minhaz was arrested on charges of harbouring Irfan in his house, Ramzan allegedly used to collect military information for him from the border state.
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