Author: Times News Network
Publication: The Times of India
Date: December 23, 2003
The intelligence department has
been asked to get information on the alleged links that Mohammed Nayeemuddin
alias Nayeem, a former naxalite of the People's War, has with the Pakistan
's ISI.
Following a report in these columns
on Monday about Nayeem's visit to Pakistan with the help of Mohammed Abdul
Raoof, an ISI recruiter in Andhra Pradesh now in Gujarat police custody,
director general of police S R Sukumara has asked the intelligence department
chief K Durga Prasad to contact the Gujarat police and get the information.
Raoof and Asgar Ali, both ISI agents,
had reportedly told their interrogators after their arrest in connection
with Haren Pandya murder, that Nayeem had gone to Pakistan via Kolkata
and Bangladesh in December 2002.
"We will arrest Nayeem if his links
with ISI are proved. We will be able to take action only after getting
the information from the Gujarat police," Sukumara told The Times of India
on Monday.
The DGP denied the charge that some
police officers were extending support to Nayeem and using him in covert
operations against the People's War. In fact, Nayeem was arrested in a
couple of cases including for the murder of AP Civil Liberties Committee
(APCLC) leader Purushottam and is facing trial, he added.
Meanwhile, sources in the police
department said the intelligence department had already secured the interrogation
reports of all the ISI agents arrested from Andhra Pradesh and recorded
by the Gujarat police. But the facts related to Nayeem were not shared
with the top officers, as he has been a police mole for long, sources said.
Even as the DGP denied having any
information on Nayeem's links with ISI, the latter appeared before the
Rangareddy court on Monday in connection with APCLC leader Purushottam's
murder case.
