Lucknow, December 18
Senior Army officials have arrived in Lucknow today to interrogate the suspected ISI agent Abdul Jabbar, alias Sikandar, who was arrested from Lucknow railway station yesterday with sensitive documents about the Army.
Additional director-general (law and order) Brijlal said Sikander had been remanded to police custody for seven days and during that period he would be interrogated by the Army along with the Anti-Terror Squad (ATS).
Refusing to divulge the significance of the sensitive documents seized from him when he was arrested from the Charbagh police station, Brijlal said it was premature to speak about it. “We would know the exact details only after the Army officers finish interrogating him”, he said. Brijlal denied any negligence along the Indo-Nepal border in the state through which Sikander had sneaked in.
Responding to a question regarding the ISI agent slipping in from Nepal despite the Chief Minister regularly alerting the police and media about the porous nature of the country’s international borders Brijlal said that both central forces and the state police were vigilant and this had led to the arrest of Sikander and several other reported terrorists earlier.
