Government employee arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan, says Rajasthan Police

The Rajasthan Police on Tuesday said that a state government employee, who was earlier detained on suspicion of spying for Pakistan, has been arrested, PTI reported.

Shakur Khan, an assistant administrative officer at the district employment office in Jaisalmer, had been detained on May 28 for allegedly passing sensitive information to his handlers in Pakistan, The Hindu reported. He had been under surveillance for suspicious activities prior to his arrest, according to PTI.

On Tuesday, Inspector General of Police (Security) Vishnu Kant Gupta alleged that Khan had been in regular contact with persons linked to the Pakistani High Commission, particularly two men identified as Ahsan-ur-Rahim alias Danish and Sohail Qamar, The Hindu reported.

In May, Danish was declared persona non-grata by New Delhi and was asked to leave India. In diplomatic parlance, an official declared persona non-grata is deemed unwelcome by the host country.

“Khan was taken into custody for questioning a few days ago and was interrogated extensively at the central interrogation facility in Jaipur by multiple intelligence agencies,” PTI quoted Gupta as saying.

He claimed that Khan obtained Pakistani visas on several occasions and travelled to Pakistan with Danish’s assistance without reporting it to Indian authorities. He came in contact with agents from the Inter-Service Intelligence, Islamabad’s intelligence agency, during his time in Pakistan, Gupta...

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