Suspected ISI agent remanded in 14 days police custody

November 15, 2015 21:23

A suspected ISI agent, arrested from central Kolkata, was today remanded in police custody for 14 days by a city court.

Magistrate Edel Lamasa granted the prosecution's plea of "full term police custody" (14 days) for 51-year-old Akhtar Khan.

The Special Task Force unit of Kolkata Police had yesterday arrested Khan from the central part of the city for his alleged links with Pakistan's ISI.

Khan has been booked under IPC sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 121 (waging or attempting to wage war or abetting waging of war against the Government of India), 121A (conspiracy to commit offences punishable by section 121), 122

(collecting arms etc with intention of waging war against the

Government of India), 489B (using as genuine forged or

counterfeit currency notes or bank notes) and 489C (possession

of forged or counterfeit currency-notes or bank-notes).

According to a highly-placed STF source, during the

preliminary investigation, it had emerged that Khan alias

Mohammed Javed alias Raju was a resident of Collin Street and

also has another address at Topsia Road.

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