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The Special Investigation Team on Wednesday made the seventh arrest in the Pakistan-linked espionage and terror funding case. The Haryana Police’s SIT team arrested another lawyer from Nuh, weeks after arresting a different lawyer from the same district.
The person was identified as Nayub, a resident of Bhagon village in Haryana’s Tauru subdivision. A police source close to the matter revealed that the authorities took him for questioning three days ago.
Nayub is an associate of Rizwan, who was arrested on November 26. The source noted that Nayub was arrested following a thorough interrogation. He was taken on charges of facilitating hawala routes and terror-funding transactions in coordination with Rizwan, who had been practising in Gurgaon and Nuh courts.
Police said that Nayub travelled to Punjab several times with Rizwan and also practised law with him in Gurgaon. The two lawyers also met with an accident in Punjab while they were returning to Nuh with cash, The Times of India reported.
4 others nabbed in the case
It is pertinent to note that after Rizwan’s arrest in Nuh for allegedly spying for Pakistan, SIT nabbed four of his associates in Punjab, in whose accounts he allegedly transferred money. The four others involved in the case were: A Jalandhar-based sweet shop owner, Ajay Arora, who allegedly managed money transactions.
The authorities also arrested Sandeep Singh alias Gagan, Amandeep Singh and Jaskaran of Amritsar, in whose accounts multiple suspicious transactions were made by Rizwan. The probe started to speed up when the authorities traced the movement of cash routed from Pakistan through a hawala network.
The money was then distributed across Punjab and was handed over to operatives linked to narcotics trafficking, according to SIT. During the probe, Rizwan led SIT to several locations in Amritsar, including Golden Gate, various points on Jalandhar-Attari Road bypass and Shahkot.
He told authorities that he received cash in multiple instalments at these sites. At Shahkot, both Rizwan and Ajay identified a sweet shop, run by the latter’s family, as the spot for money exchanges. Rizwan went on to confess to paying Rs 34 lakh to Ajay in three to four instalments, linking these payments to the money he collected in Punjab and distributed further along the chain.
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View AllSIT eventually recovered Rs 55,000 from Ajay, which he described as his “commission amount”, from a locker in an almirah at his Shahkot home. It is important to note that the investigation in the case began on November 25, when constable Rinku, stationed at Sadar Tauru police station, received information that Rizwan was receiving hawala money from Pakistan’s ISI-linked operatives for activities, including espionage and narco-smuggling.
The police were then flagged about unusually large transactions in Rizwan’s PNB account and his frequent visits to Punjab. In light of this, an SIT was formed under the DSP of Tauru. Rizwan was arrested the next day on Majitha Road in Amritsar, and his mobile phone and laptop were seized from his Nuh home.
With inputs from agencies.
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