Gurugram: Haryana Police have arrested a Nuh advocate who practised law in the District Courts in Gurugram, on the suspicion of colluding with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). This marks the third such espionage-related arrest in Haryana’s Mewat region this year.
The suspect, identified as Rizwan, a resident of Kharkhari village in Tauru subdivision, was taken into custody by Nuh district police on inputs provided by a central investigation agency, a spokesperson of the Nuh police told ThePrint over the phone Wednesday.
Rizwan, who practices law in Gurugram courts, has been charged under relevant sections of the BNS pertaining to anti-national conduct.
A formal case has been filed at the Tauru Sadar police station, with investigators probing his alleged role in transmitting sensitive information to ISI handlers across the border, said the spokesperson.
A source in Nuh police said Rizwan’s activities came under scrutiny following intelligence inputs linking him to prior detainees. Digital forensics, the source added, uncovered incriminating evidence on his mobile device suggestive of espionage.
His digital transactions are also being probed.
“The evidence points to deliberate efforts to compromise national security,” the source said, emphasising the ongoing analysis of seized gadgets to trace further links. Before Rizwan, Mohammad Tarif, from Kangarka village in Tauru, was apprehended in May this year for allegedly relaying classified military details to Pakistani handlers and providing Indian SIM cards to agents associated with the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi.
Just days before Tarif’s detention, Arman, a resident of Rajaka village, was nabbed after authorities found more than 15 mobile phones in his possession. Forensic examination of the devices supposedly revealed about 70 contacts based in Pakistan, stored under cryptic labels like “Ashan Don” and “G”.
Another advocate from Nuh said on condition of anonymity that Rizwan’s family has relatives in Pakistan. “I am not commenting on the merits of the case against Rizwan, as the police must have some concrete evidence against him. But I just want to say that a majority of people living in Mewat have their relatives living in Pakistan, whose families migrated from here at the time of Partition. They keep speaking to them on the phone.”
(Edited by Amrtansh Arora)
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