ISI-related Modules Neutralised outside J&K and Northeast, 2004-08

Number

Date

Place

Description

Seizure

1

January 3 and January 6, 2004

Jalandhar, Punjab

Eight persons were arrested in connection with the circulation of fake currency smuggled into the country as part of a network sponsored by the ISI

Rupees 5.52 Lakhs in fake currency

2

January 10, 2004

Hyderabad, Siddipet in Medak district, Andhra Pradesh

Six youths suspected to be ISI agents were arrested from two separate places in the state

Unspecified

3

January 22, 2004

New Delhi

Delhi Police arrests a Hizb-e-Islami (HeI) terrorist, Ayaz Mohammad Shah, near the Metro railway station in north-east Delhi

3.5 kg of high explosives and Rupees three lakhs

4

January 25, 2004

Laxmi Nagar, East Delhi

Delhi Police arrests three Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) terrorists from Laxmi Nagar

Three kilogram of high explosives, detonators, timers, rocket-propelled grenades and foreign currency

5

February 8, 2004

Ghosepukur, Darjeeling district, West Bengal

A Bangladeshi ISI agent is arrested by the Army

A mobile phone, three rounds of SLR cartridge, a camera, a map showing the location of an army base

6

February 12, 2004

Mukarba Chowk area of North West Delhi

A Jammu based trans-border terrorists’ courier, Ved Prakash Sharma alias Billa, was arrested by the Delhi Police

Four kilograms of high-grade explosives

7

March 9, 2004

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

A 40-year-old Pakistani national, who was carrying a Bangladeshi passport, is arrested on charges of espionage. Arshad Mahmood was passing on sensitive information to Pakistan's intelligence officers through e-mail

'Photographs of army units and locations, sketch map of army units location in Secunderabad-Hyderabad, copies of e-mails and a sum of Rupees 31,000 in Indian currency were seized from his one-room rented house at Muthyalabagh

8

March 27, 2004

Bhogal, New Delhi

Irshad Ahmed Malik, a LeT activist, is arrested by the Delhi Police from outside a guesthouse for allegedly trying to set up a terrorist base in the city

Unspecified

9

March 30, 2004

Goraya area of Jalandhar district in Punjab

Five LeT terrorists are arrested

Unspecified

10

April 29, 2004

Durg, Akola district of Maharashtra

Three suspected hardcore Punjab terrorists were arrested

A Pakistan made-9 mm carbine, one pistol, 40 live cartridges and Rupees 9,000

11

May 4, 2004

Rishra in Hooghly district, West Bengal

Three members of an ISI module were arrested

CDs, pictures of Barauni Oil Refinery in Bihar and rail and road bridges were seized

12

May 7, 2004

Chowgacha village, Nadia district in West Bengal

The West Bengal Police arrests six suspected ISI agents

Unspecified

13

June 10, 2004

Begumpet Airport, Hyderabad

Andhra Pradesh Police arrests a suspected agent of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Anees Mohinuddin

Unspecified

14

July 20, 2004

Amritsar, Punjab

Three persons arrested alongwith a large amount of arms and ammunition

A rifle with a telescope, two Springfield rifles, two Carbines, two pistols of .410 bore, two rifles of .303 bore, three guns of 12 bore, pistol of 38 prohibited bore, four parts of guns

15

July 26, 2004

New Delhi

A 23-year-old Pakistani national was arrested from a cyber cafe in the Laxmi Nagar area of East Delhi while sending sensitive defence matter through the Internet

Site plan of the Delhi Cantonment area, telephone numbers of defence establishments, a loaded camera with clicked photographs of defence areas and a diary containing Pakistan numbers along with Pakistani and Bangladeshi currency, an ATM card of Muslim Commercial Bank and fake driving licenses

16

August 26, 2004

Kolkata, West Bengal

Ali Bhai, a suspected ISI agent, is arrested from the Bowbazaar area

Data downloaded from his computer shows he was collecting information about defence officials in key posts and their responsibilities and capacity

17

August 29, 2004

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

Eight suspected LeT cadres planned to attack Americans visiting the State and incite communal tension through a series of explosions during the Ganesh festival

Explosives, a car and four motorcycles were seized

18

November 25, 2004

New Delhi

Delhi Police arrested a Pakistani national from the New Delhi railway station, allegedly trying to set up an espionage base

Sketches and photographs of defence installations

19

December 22, 2004

New Delhi

Four persons, including two Bangladeshi conduits, are arrested along with fake currency

Rupees 46 lakh in fake currency

20

December 26, 2004

Amritsar, Punjab

Sunny Shairaj alias Rashid Massih, who belonged to the Field Intelligence Unit of Pakistani military, was arrested while he was e-mailing secret documents, pertaining to the Indian defence, to one Major Tariq from a cyber cafe near the GND University

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21

January 16, 2005

Karol Bagh, New Delhi

The Delhi Police arrests Aijaz Ahmed Farash, a Pakistan-trained terrorist of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen

Unspecified

22

February 12, 2005

New Delhi

Delhi Police arrests a HM terrorist and a Pakistani agent, identified as Mohammed Ahsun Untoo, from Church road in the Cantonment area

Unspecified

23

March 7, 2005

Dehradun, Uttaranchal

Arrested LeT terrorist, Mohammad Iftikar Ehsan Malick, was studying in a bio-technology institute in Uttaranchal for over a year

Unspecified

24

March 10, 2005

Lalkurti, Uttar Pradesh

Police arrest an ISI agent, identified as Khalil Husain Shah

Unspecified

25

April 28, 2005

Mumbai, Maharashtra

Abdul Rezzak, a suspected ISI agent, is arrested for running a fake currency racket

Unspecified

26

March 19, 2005

Kaliachak in Malda, West Bengal

ISI agent and a member of the a member of Al Badr Eyaz Mohammed arrested

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27

May 11, 2005

New Delhi

A suspected ISI agent, a citizen of Nepal, was arrested by the Delhi Police from the New Delhi railway station

High quality heroin worth Rs 1 crores and fake currency worth Rs 1.95 lakhs

28

May 12, 2005

Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi

An alleged LeT terrorist is arrested by the Delhi Police soon after he arrived by an Air India flight IC 856 from Singapore. Harun Rashid, a resident of Siwan in the State of Bihar, had disclosed that he was working for a LeT module in association with Parvez and Doctor

Unspecified

29

May 30, 2005

Ajmer, Rajasthan

A ISI agent, Mohammed Mehmood alias Sahil alias Aplu, is arrested from a hotel

One camera, diary and one Pakistani bank ATM card and cash worth Rs. 3000

30

June 1, 2005

New Delhi

The Delhi Police conducted a raid at the hideout of Jaspal Singh, an accused in the twin cinema halls bomb blast at Inderpuri

1 kg of RDX, a timer, detonator, a.303 rifle, 20 rounds of ammunitions, a uniform of a Punjab Police head constable and several fake driving licenses

31

June 5, 2005

Nawanshahar, Punjab

A joint team of the Delhi and Punjab Police arrested two Babbar Khalsa International (BKI) activists from Nawanshahar district

Two slabs of RDX weighing one kilogram, 11 detonators and cordex wires

32

June 8, 2005

New Delhi

Jagtar Singh Hawara, 'operations chief' of the BKI in India was arrested along with two other accused in the May 22, 2005 theatre blasts from the G.T. Karnal Road in Narela Industrial Area

10.35 kgs of RDX, four pistols of foreign make, 207 live cartridges, three remote-controlled explosive devices and a hand grenade

33

June 10, 2005

New Delhi

A HM cadre is arrested along with explosives at the inter-state bus terminus. Brought explosives to supply to a module of the organisation in Delhi

Half kilogram of RDX

34

June 12, 2005

Punjab

Five persons, Ajaib Singh, Charanjit Kaur, Amit Marwah, Balwinder Singh and Sukhwinder Singh, were arrested for having links with Jagtar Singh Hawara

20 electrical detonators, 30 mechanical detonators, four batteries, nine belts, eight bomb connections, an ABCD timer, eight bomb coils along with a timer bomb with maximum limit adjustment of 72 hours and more than thousand live cartridges

35

June 16, 2005

Ropar district, Punjab

Two close associates of Jagtar Singh Hawara, Swarn Singh and Paramjit Singh alias Bhola, are arrested

10 kg of RDX, a detonating device switch, 10 PE3A gelatin sticks, two infusion sticks, nine ABCD timers, four highly sophisticated grenades, nine clap switches, one live bomb and two .25 mm Chinese made pistol

36

June 18, 2005

Hoshiarpur district, Punjab

A BKI activist, Ashwani Dadwal alias Jangali, is arrested

One kg of RDX and two detonators

37

June 25, 2005

Butala, Punjab

A BKI activist, Tarsem Singh, allegedly a ‘human bomb’ who was planning to target Ashutosh Maharaj, the head of a religious sect, is arrested

Sophisticated electronic devices found wrapped around his waist, hand-grenade, 550 live cartridges of AK-47, detonators and ‘bottle bombs’

38

June 28, 2005

New Delhi

A BKI cadre, Satnam Singh, is arrested from the Majnu Ka Tila area. Satnam Singh, who was part of the module headed by Jagtar Singh Hawara, had agreed to become a 'human bomb' and was reportedly hiding at a Gurdwara (Sikh place of worship) near the place of arrest

A pistol and 15 live cartridges

39

July 1, 2005

New Delhi

Delhi Police is reported to have arrested four terrorists, Masood, Zahid, Bashir and Nazir, from the South-West Delhi area

Four Chinese pistols, its 18 cartridges, 35 cartridges of AK-47 rifle, one hand grenade, Rupees 50,000 fake currency, a cheque of Rupees 9.5 lakh. a map of the Indira Gandhi International Airport and army dresses

40

July 16, 2005

Noida, Uttar Pradesh

Police arrest two suspected ISI agents from Zewar and Phase II area of Noida near the capital city of Delhi.

Incriminating documents including maps of vital installations.

41

July 17, 2005

Faridabad, Haryana

The Police arrest two women on charges of being accomplices of the two alleged ISI agents, who were earlier arrested on July 16.

Unspecified

42

August 4, 2005

Jaipur, Rajasthan

Rajasthan Police arrested an ISI agent while he was trying to get an Indian passport.

He was identified as Shahnawaz Khan who lived in Kolkata, capital of West Bengal, for several years before migrating to Pakistan in 1969.

A diary with information on military installations in Rajasthan along with a debit card and a mobile phone.

43

September 7, 2005

Delhi

ISI agent, Irfan Kausar, is arrested from the New Delhi area.

Unspecified

44

Malerkotla in the Sangrur district of Punjab

Delhi Police neutralised an ISI base in Punjab and arrested Mohammed Ramzan, an alleged agent, who had been tasked to provide shelter to other operatives.

Unspecified

45

October 4, 2005

Delhi

Police arrested a Hizb-ul-Mujahideen cadre near Golcha Cinema in the Daryaganj area.

Rupees 10 lakhs

46

November 10, 2005

Jalandhar, Punjab

Two Pakistani nationals are arrested from the Jalandhar district in Punjab along with sensitive documents pertaining to vital Army installations. One was of them was identified as Khurram Shehzad Ali alias Junaid Alam, a resident of Okara in Pakistan.

Sensitive documents

47

November 11, 2005

Delhi

An alleged conduit of the JeM who shuttled between India and Bangladesh and had ferried the terrorists involved in the July 5- Ayodhya attack was arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi Police at Old Delhi Railway Station.

Unspecified

48

November 24, 2005

West Bengal

Special Cell personnel of the Delhi Police arrested a suspected conduit of the JeM from West Bengal. Police said Amir Ali, a resident of North-24 Parganas district, was part of the network that provided support to those involved in the Ayodhya attack on July 5, 2005.

Unspecified

49

November 26, 2005

Ahmedabad, Gujarat

The Rajasthan and Gujarat police killed a suspected LeT cadre, Sohrabuddin Anwar Hussain Sheikh, at Ahmedabad.

Unspecified

50

December 17, 2005

Jodhpur, Rajasthan

A Pakistani national, Jahid, was arrested from Jodhpur.

Unspecified

51

December 30, 2005

The Hyderabad Police arrested four suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) activists.

Unspecified

52

January 3, 2006

Nalgonda, Andhra Pradesh

Bangalore city Police Commissioner, Ajai Kumar Singh, said that they have arrested a LeT terrorist from Andhra Pradesh in connection with the December 28 attack in the Indian Institute of Science campus. Singh said Abdul Rehman, a self-styled LeT commander in south India, was arrested from Nalgonda on January 1.

Unspecified

53

January 15, 2006

Almatti in the Bagalkot district of Karnataka

A LeT conspiracy to blast reservoirs and power installations in Karnataka was unearthed when the police arrested a terrorist, Habeeb.

Explosive materials, including gelatin sticks, and a diary, a passport and some incriminating documents.

54

January 20, 2006

Karnataka

Bangalore police arrest two suspected LeT operatives, Irfan, an Islamic preacher from Uttar Pradesh, and Afsar Pasha, a native of Chintamani in the Kolar district of Karnataka.

Unspecified

55

January 22, 2006

Hesaraghatta on the outskirts of Bangalore

Nizamuddin alias Munna and M. Noorulla Khan, both residents of Chintamani in the Kolar district of Karnataka, were arrested.

Two ‘tin bombs’, one ‘tiffin-carrier bomb’, a country-made revolver with three rounds, three electrical detonators and a telephone book

56

January 30, 2006

Mumbai, the capital city of Maharashtra

Mumbai Police arrested two persons, including a Pakistan-trained bomb-maker

Two imported firearms and approximately one kilogram of highly inflammable high-grade explosive, besides maps of Maharashtra, Mumbai and Manali (Himachal Pradesh)

57

January 30, 2006

Howrah, Kolkata

Waquar Salim, a Pakistani national allegedly engaged in spying for the ISI, was arrested.

Documents, hand-drawn maps, directory of defence establishments in West Bengal, a diary containing telephone numbers in Pakistan and Bangladesh, Pakistani currency and a camera

58

February 1, 2006

Bangalore

Police arrested a suspected LeT activist, Chand Pasha, in connection with the December 28-terrorist attack on the IISc campus in Bangalore

Unspecified

59

February 4, 2006

New Delhi

Nasir, an alleged Hizb-ul-Mujahideen operative is arrested from the Defence Colony area of national capital on charges of funding separatist organisations in J&K.

Two kg of RDX, one pistol along with six cartridges, one ABCD timer, one detonator and Rupees 55 lakh

60

February 10, 2006

New Delhi

With the arrest of two alleged Al-Badr terrorists, Irshad Ali and Mohammad Muarif Qamar alias Nawab, and recovery of explosives, the Delhi Police claimed to have foiled a terrorist plan to trigger off blasts in the national capital.

Two kilograms of explosives, believed to be RDX, two Chinese pistols, 16 live cartridges, three detonators, and two timers.

61

February 27, 2006

New Delhi

Two LeT terrorists, Shamil and Shaheen, were arrested at the New Delhi Railway Station when they arrived by the Howrah New Delhi Express. According to police, they had come from Bangladesh with the intention to set up a base in Delhi and carry out terrorist activities.

Three kgs of RDX, two electronic detonators, two pistols with 12 live cartridges, two Bangladeshi passports and Rs 40,000 of fake Indian currency notes.

62

March 8, 2006

New Delhi

Two top LeT operatives, Mohammad Salim bin-Aziz and Ghulam Yazdani, were killed in an encounter with the Delhi Police at Bawana in Northwest Delhi.

One AK-56 assault rifle, two Czech-made Lugar pistols, four grenades, four kg PETN explosive, fake currency with the face value of Rs 47,000, and a Bangladeshi SIM card.

63

March 8, 2006

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

Salar alias Doctor Majeed of the LeT was shot dead in a joint operation by UP Special Task Force and J and K Police in Gosaiganj on the outskirts of Lucknow.

RDX and some detonators.

64

March 11, 2006

Goa

Possible terrorist strikes at popular tourist locations in Goa was prevented with the arrest of Tarique Jalal alias Tarique Batlo, a Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen cadre, from Margoa railway station.

One kg of RDX, two Russian-made hand-grenades, two electronic detonators, two cameras, a mobile phone and a CD.

65

March 14, 2006

Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh

An ISI agent is arrested from the Brij Vihar Colony area.

Some documents in the Urdu and Arabic languages.

66

March 17, 2006

Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Police shot dead four terrorists belonging to the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen in an encounter near Vatva locality.

Four pistols, one kilogram of explosives, three phones (two with local SIM cards), one CD, Rupees 1.21 lakh in cash and some literature in Urdu.

67

March 30, 2006

Jelenabad area in Gulbarga, Karnataka

Police arrested Shamim Ahmad, a LeT activist who was claiming to be a resident of Goa.

An AK-47, two hand grenades, a mobile phone, maps of dams and power grid installations in Andhra Pradesh, some audio-video cassettes and printed material in Urdu.

68

April 5, 2006

Different parts of Uttar Pradesh

Police arrested HuJi cadre Wali Ullah, a mastermind of the March 7-serial blasts in Varanasi, and five of his accomplices, Mehbook Ali, Syed Shuaib Hussain, Farhan, Mohammad Rizwan Siddique and Mohammad Saad Ali.

Unspecified.

69

April 15, 2006

New Delhi

Delhi Police unearthed a fake currency racket in the national capital by Pakistan's external intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, with the arrest of two persons, Amir Ahmed and Tahsim Kunjare, hailing from Muzaffarnagar and Baghpat in the State of Uttar Pradesh respectively.

Fake currency with a face value of about Rupees 20,000.

70

May 8, 2006

New Delhi

A Pakistani national belonging to the LeT was shot dead in an encounter with the police outside Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on May 8-night. The encounter followed the arrest of two other LeT terrorists at Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station earlier in the evening. A team led by Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Ajay Kumar had arrested the terrorists when they arrived by the Mumbai-Amritsar Golden Temple train.

Four kgs of RDX, four detonators and Rs. 50,000.

71

May 11, 2006

Aurangabad district, Maharashtra

Three suspected LeT operatives were arrested.

30 kg of explosives, 10 AK-47 assault rifles and 2,000 bullets.

72

May 13, 2006

Manmad, Maharashtra

The Anti-Terrorist Squad of Mumbai Police seized a consignment of weapons from Ankai Fort at Manmad in Nasik district, about 180 km from Mumbai.

One AK-47 rifle, 200 rounds, a magazine and 50 hand grenades.

73

May 14, 2006

Malegaon, Maharashtra

Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) officials seized five containers containing explosives after a raid on an electronic shop at Azad Nagar, Malegaon, in Nashik district.

Five boxes of explosives, including five AK-47 rifles, 13 kg of RDX, 1,000 live cartridges, 20 magazines and 50 hand grenades.

74

75

August 13, 2006

Mumbai

Mumbai Police neutralize a LeT module in the city by arresting two suspected members of the outfit, identified as Shabbir Ahmed Mushiullah, a resident of Malegaon in Nasik, and Nafiz Ahmed Jamir Ahmed Ansari, a resident of Govandi in north-east Mumbai. Both are also members of the outlawed SIMI and had traveled to Dubai in May 2003. From there they had moved to Pakistan for arms training.

Unspecified.

76

September 13, 2006

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

An alleged ISI agent, Taseem, was arrested by the Anti-Terrorist Force in connection with the September 8-bomb blasts in Malegaon.

Taseem has been staying in India for the past two years and ran a placement agency in the city

Unspecified

77

October 3, 2006

Pathankot railway station, Punjab

A suspected Pakistani national, Khaled Pervez, believed to be an ISI agent was arrested by the Gurdaspur police.

Pervez came to India during the India-Pakistan Cricket series in 2005 and subsequently disappeared.

Pervez reportedly told police that he was trained by the Pakistani army for two months and was sent to spy on Indian Army and other sensitive installations in Punjab.

A diary, some important documents, photographs of sensitive installations and a spy camera.

78

October 5, 2006

New Delhi

Delhi Police neutralized an espionage ring of the ISI, involving a Pakistani and a Bangladeshi national with the arrest of the duo from Madanpur Khadar in South Delhi.

They were identified as Ali Rehman Jalal of Madaripur in Bangladesh and Mohammad Muzaffar Khan of Karachi in Pakistan.

Incriminating documents and a hand-made sketch of some sensitive installations of Delhi Cantonment.

79

October 20, 2006

New Delhi

Ritesh Kumar, an army signalman posted in Leh, was arrested by police on his arrival from Jammu and Kashmir at the Indira Gandhi airport in New Delhi. He was working for the ISI since December 2005 and had handed over some documents on an earlier occasion, according to Delhi Police sources.

Pen drive containing information about troop deployment in Jammu and Kashmir and certain classified documents.

80

October 20, 2006

New Delhi

Anil Kumar Dubey, posted with the Army Group Insurance scheme, was arrested at Mahipalpur in southwest Delhi while allegedly passing secret defence information to a driver of the Pakistan High Commission.

Documents relating to various defence-related matters and compact discs suspected to contain more information about the movement and deployment of Army troops.

81

December 28, 2006

Lucknow

Police arrested two alleged ISI agents, Abdul Shakoor and Adeel Anjum alias Adil, and informed that both had entered India after receiving training in Pakistan. The duo, residents of Multan in Pakistan, was arrested from Kaiserbagh.

Sensitive documents relating to the Army, a ration card, a PAN card and a passport made in Lucknow.

82

February 1, 2007

Varanasi

The accused Javed Akhtar is reported be a resident of Allahabad and two of his brothers are living in Lahore.

Several sensitive documents, including a map of the Harish Chandra Atomic Research Centre in Allahabad, information about Indian army bases and infrastructure in Uttar Pradesh, documents connected to India's planned purchase of T-90 tanks from Russia and Indian troop movements and counter-militancy operations in Punjab.

83

February 22, 2007

Bhuj, Gujarat

Bhuj District Superintendent of Police Gyanendrasinh Malik, said two ISI agents, Aslam and Syed Ali, were arrested on the basis of information supplied by another ISI agent, Adil Anjuman, who was arrested from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh during December 2006.

Adil had worked for several months in Bhuj and other parts of Kutch to develop a spy module in the district and was brought on transit warrant to Bhuj for spot-checking. He identified Aslam, who originally hailed from Junagadh in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, as having helped him to secure false passports and other documents and having used his contacts to create the module.

Photographs of the high-security Kandla port and some sensitive documents.

84

February 27, 2007

New Delhi

Military intelligence officials along with special cell of Delhi Police arrested Captain Salim Zafar Azad, an agent of ISI from a residential colony in East Delhi and produced him in a court on February 28. The army official who served as an army doctor had deserted his services on May 18, 1997 when he was posted at Military Hospital in Dinjan Cantonment in the Dibrugarh district of Assam.

Subsequently, he spent a few years in Bangladesh and then moved to Delhi and was reportedly overseeing a part of ISI’s operation.

Unspecified

85

April 1, 2007

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

An ISI agent, who was allegedly attempting to recruit youths from Hyderabad, was arrested. Maqsood Ahmed, a resident of Malakpet, was working as a manager in the Proline garments showroom at Somajiguda.

Maqsood came in contact with an ISI agent, Mohammed Abdul Shahed alias Bilal, with the help of his friend Mohammed Ibrahim and the duo planned to recruit youths for Jehadi activities in Hyderabad, Gujarat and Somalia.

Four compact discs and a floppy disk containing provocative speeches.

86

May 30, 2007

New Delhi

Insaf Ali, an ISI agent, was arrested from old Delhi railway station while sending secret information of Indian armed forces to Pakistan via a passenger, who was about to board the Samjhauta Express train that runs between India and Pakistan. Police said that Ali, a native of Pali in Rajasthan, had earlier delivered secret information of Indian security forces to the ISI and was also involved in recruiting people for the agency in New Delhi.

Unspecified

87

June 15, 2007

Hyderabad

Mohammed Abdul Sattar, a 27-year-old air-condition mechanic, was arrested near the Secunderabad railway station while moving under suspicious circumstances along with a traveling bag.

Sattar reportedly confessed that he had received arms training in Pakistan in 2004 along with other ISI activists under the leadership of Shaheed, a key suspect in the may 18, 2007-bomb blast in Hyderabad.

Provocative literature and VCDs on Jihadi activity.

88

June 25, 2007

New Delhi

Three persons, suspected to be ISI agents, were arrested near the Nizamuddin railway station. Nayeem, Mohammad Muslim and Wasim, all residents of Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, were carrying counterfeit currency notes worth INR 3.3 million. The currency notes, concealed in 216 thread-rollers, consisted of notes of INR 1,000 and INR 500 denominations, which had been smuggled in from Pakistan through the Rajasthan border.

Counterfeit currency notes.

89

July 13, 2007

Kutch district, Gujarat

Gujarat Police arrested six persons including two Pakistan nationals, Abdul Gaffar Qasim Chiba and Abdul Khalif Tayyab Chauhan, both residents of Bhabhobhit area in Karachi. The Indians include Mumbai-based operative Sayyed Ahmed Ali and three other Mandvi-based fishermen, Abdullah Adam Dosani, Suleman Mohammad Chauhan and Ismail Yakub Chiba.

The module was operating to smuggle in fake currency, narcotics and arms and ammunition through the Mandvi port in the Kutch district.

They revealed that the module had already smuggled in INR 24 lakh in fake currency through Mandvi and sent it to Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh.

A GPS, a mobile phone, three SIM cards, genuine Indian currency worth INR 4,600, a Pakistani note of PKR 100 denomination, photocopy of Chavan’s identity card, a fake driving licence and a half of UAE currency of 10 Dirham.

90

July 17, 2007

Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh

A suspected ISI agent, Mohammad Naeem, a resident of Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh, who worked as a fourth grade employee of Indian Railways, was arrested in Bhopal.

Secret documents related to the Army, maps and photographs of vital installations

91

September 11, 2007

Hyderabad

A suspected ISI agent, Mohammed Sohail, a resident of Saleem Nagar in Malakpet, was arrested at the RTC crossroad area.

Literature on jihad.

92

October 15, 2007

Mumbai

Police arrested an ISI agent, Mohammed Qamar Shafi Afghani, who was passing vital information to Pakistan. Afghani, a zari worker by profession, lived in the Govandi slums from where the police had earlier arrested Mohammed Ali, another person accused in the July 11, 2006 Mumbai explosions case.

Passport, a CD, ration card and five credit cards.

93

January 10, 2008

Rampur and Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh

Six Lashkar-e-Toiba militants suspected to be involved in the terrorist attacks on the Central Reserve Police Force Group Centre in Rampur (January 1, 2008) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore (December 28, 2005), were arrested.

Fahim Ahmed Ansari alias Abu Zaraar alias Saquib, Mohammad Sharif alias Mohammad Anwar and Jang Bahadur alias Baba were arrested in Rampur and Mohammad Sabahuddin alias Abu Qasim alias Sameer Singh, Amar Singh alias Abu Zaar and Abu Osama alias Aavesh, were detained at the Charbagh Railway Station tempo stand in Lucknow.

Unspecified

94

January 11, 2008

Honali in the Davanagere district of Karnataka

Riyazuddin Nasir alias Mohammad Ghouse, an Engineering Diploma drop out from Hyderabad and Asadulla Abubaker, a student in Indian medicine, hailing from Hospet in Karnataka, were arrested for suspected terrorist links. Based on their revelations, police also picked up one Mohammad Asif, a final year student in medicine in Hubli, and the trio were linked to the banned SIMI and LeT.

Unspecified

95

January 20, 2008

Bhopal

Three persons, including an ISI agent from Pakistan, were arrested by the Madhya Pradesh Police for allegedly passing on sensitive information about the Indian Army.

Mohammed Imran Warsi, the ISI agent hailing from Karachi, was arrested along with two others — Iqbal and Akhtar—, who were acting as his local contacts and supplying him sensitive information. Imran had allegedly been passing on sensitive information through e-mail and phone to his "handlers" in Pakistan and Dubai, from where he received the funding.

Sensitive information regarding deployment, unit details and important phone numbers of the Indian Army.

March 6, 2008

Hyderabad

Police arrested an ISI agent, identified as Billah, following information provided by a terror suspect in Karnataka. Billah was named by Raziuddin Naser, who was arrested in Karnataka in January 2008 in connection with a plot to carry out terrorist attacks in Goa and Hyderabad.

Some sensitive documents and compact discs.