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The Delhi police on Thursday busted a spy racket and arrested three civilians working with the navy for allegedly passing on sensitive documents to an official of the Pakistan high commission in New Delhi, police said.
The police said Mohammed Abdul Samad, an assistant in the Directorate of Marine Engineering at the Naval Headquarters, had been passing sensitive information to Gulam Shabbir Khan of the Pakistan high commission.
Giving details, the police said investigations had revealed that Samad had introduced two more persons, Francis Prakash and Babul Nath Maurya, to Khan.
On an information that Samad, along with his accomplice Prakash, would come to deliver defence-related secret documents to the Pakistani official, the police laid a trap on Thursday night and arrested the two. The Pakistani official was detained, the police said.
A case under the Official Secrets Act has been registered against the officials, they added.
The accused, during intensive interrogation, disclosed that their third associate, Babul Nath Maurya, was waiting for them near a bridge.
They said Maurya was in possession of the documents, which they had to collect and pass to the Pakistani official, the police said.
Maurya was arrested and the secret documents were recovered from him, they added.
The Pakistani official has been handed over to the Ministry of External Affairs and investigations were on, the police said.
PTI
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