The Pune police are probing the real identity of the 24-year-old youth, Vishambhar Tarachand Agarwal, who was arrested on Tuesday afternoon from the Pune railway station area suspecting him to have links with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
The police seized documents and photographs about the army’s Southern Command headquarters from him, which he was supposed to hand over to a person near Alankar Theatre.
“We have sent a team to his village in Haryana. It is possible that he was staying in Pune under a fake identity,” police sources said.
The police have also begun examining the two bank accounts of Agarwal. “He worked as a supervisor in a transport company and drew a salary of Rs5,000 a month. We are trying to ascertain how much money he had in his bank accounts. He was staying in Nigdi area for the past five years,” police sources said.
The police sent a formal request to the Southern Command to allow it to quiz one of the jawans, Brijeshkumar Singh, who was in touch with Agarwal. The Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) will also interrogate Agarwal.
“Agarwal seems to be a tough nut to crack since he has not revealed much during the interrogation. Moreover, he is coming up with different statements during grilling, which is baffling us. He is not even fearful or panicky,” police sources said.
According to the police, Agarwal had kept the sensitive documents and CDs in a big envelop and concealed it inside his shirt. The call records of the cellphones of Agarwal and Singh were examined thoroughly.
“One thing that has come out so far is that both of them had called up one common number nine times each,” sources said, but refused to divulge whether that number is from an overseas country or from India.
