Suspected ISI spy let off by Gujarat court
"There was no sufficient evidence against Jamnagar resident Idrish Pinjara (33) arrested on October 23, 2012. The metropolitan court has ordered his release, upon which he was set free yesterday under section 169 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC)", Investigating Officer (IO) H A Rathod told PTI.
As per the chargesheet filed here last month, three other accused Sirajuddin Ali Fakir (24), Mohammad Ayub (23) and Naushad Ali (23) face charges of criminal conspiracy and waging war against the country, after their arrest last year.
On October 14, 2012, Fakir and Ayub, both residents of Jamalpur locality here, were arrested for allegedly passing on confidential information related to Army base in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar Army Cantonment to the Pakistani spy agency.
Jodhpur
resident
Naushad
Ali
was
picked
up
on
November
2,
2012
on
the
charges
of
providing
information
about
Jodhpur
Army
cantonment
and
BSF
headquarters.
The
chargesheet
says
the
three
saved
messages
in
drafts
to
facilitate
Pakistani
officials
to
access
them
using-emails.
They
were
booked
under
sections
121
(waging,
or
attempting
to
wage
war,
or
abetting
waging
of
war,
against
the
Government
of
India),
121
(A)
(conspiracy
to
commit
offences
punishable
by
Sec
121),
123
(concealing
with
intent
to
facilitate
design
to
wage
war),
and
120
(B)
(criminal
conspiracy)
of
Indian
Penal
Code
(IPC)
besides
section
66
(F)
of
IT
Act
and
section
3
of
Official
Secrets
Act.
"As the trio were involved in a case relating to providing confidential information about military bases in Gujarat and Rajasthan and national security, prior sanction of the Indian Army was needed about what constitutes as classified, secret information, and also nod from state and Central governments for their prosecution", Rathod said, adding both the governments granted the sanction for their prosecution.
The chargesheet also mentioned 75 evidence and details of nine other accused, who are yet to be arrested.
While two among the nine persons are Pakistani nationals, five are Saudi residents and the rest Dubai nationals. According to the chargesheet, the trio transferred around Rs. 2,85,000 via Western Union Money transfer and Moneygram Money Transfer.
PTI