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ISI agent held, RDX seized
From Our Correspondent

NEW DELHI, Dec 6 — The special cell of the Delhi Police arrested an ISI agent from the Badarpur area of South Delhi and seized RDX from his possession.

The ISI agent, Khalid Mahmood, who is a resident of Lahore, was arrested when he was coming from Faridabad after receiving the consignment, the police said.

The Delhi Police received information from the military intelligence that an ISI agent, who lived in the Badarpur area, was engaged in passing on the secret information. Sleuths of the special cell kept watch on his activities which were suspect. He went to Faridabad for a few days which increased the suspicion of the sleuths of the special cell.

The sleuths caught him last evening when he was coming from Faridabad. A search yielded 10 kg RDX, two AB timers, two electronic detonators and letters containing sensitive information written in Urdu with secret ink.

A case under the Explosive Substance Act, the Foreigners Act and of waging war against the state has been registered.

SC upholds Rao’s acquittal in St Kitts case

NEW DELHI, Dec 6 (PTI) — Case-scarred former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao today got a major relief when the Supreme Court upheld the trial court order discharging him from the St Kitts forgery case.

Dismissing an appeal filed by the CBI against an order of the Delhi High Court, which had also upheld the trial court verdict, a Division Bench comprising Mr Justice M.B. Shah and Mr Justice Ruma Pal said: “We find no reason for interfering in the high court order.”

The apex court also upheld the trial court order discharging former Union Minister K.K. Tewary from the case in which the CBI had alleged that Mr Rao and others, including self-styled godman Chandraswami had forged documents to show that former Prime Minister V.P. Singh’s son had an account in First Trust Corporation Ltd (FTCL) in St Kitts Island and Mr V.P. Singh was a beneficiary of the same.