ISI agent: NIA conducts searches at 3 places in Uttar Pradesh

LUCKNOW: Two months after registering an FIR in connection with accused ISI agent Mohammed Rashid, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday conducted searches at three places in Uttar Pradesh.
The searches were carried out at the house of Rashid in Chandauli and his relatives’ places in Lucknow and Varanasi. Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (UPATS) had arrested Mohammed Rashid from Chandauli district on January 19, 2020 for his links to Pakistan-based Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).
NIA also recovered a mobile and some incriminating documents during the searches.The documents and mobile phone have been seized and will be sent for forensic examination. NIA also said that accused Rashid came in contact with ISI during his two visits to Pakistan.
“During his Pak visit, Rashid was lured and then came in touch with the ISI handlers,” said a source privy to the probe in NIA.
Rashid was also found to be transmitting photographs of some of the sensitive and strategically important installations in India and the movement of the armed forces to the suspected ISI handlers in Pakistan, the NIA said.