27.01.2016, Ahmedabad: Gujarat cops are flummoxed by the first case of a deaf and dumb person apprehended for allegedly being an ISI agent. State ATS sources said Aslam Pathan, who was recently arrested by Ambala police in Punjab with photographs of him offering namaz against the backdrop of Jamnagar air base, is deaf and dumb and used to beg in Rajkot till December 2015.
Punjab police have also found a pair of binoculars, a cell phone and maps of sensitive government bases of Gujarat, as well as Punjab in Pathan's possession.
Gujarat police sources said they have been informed that Pathan used to pass on information to his Ahmedabad-based handler.How Pathan reached Ambala from Rajkot is still a mystery to the cops.
Teams of ATS and Ahmedabad crime branch have been formed and dispatched to different cities in Gujarat and to Mumbai to probe Pathan's links, said sources.Additional DGP (Intelligence) Pramod Kumar said Gujarat ATS is looking into the incident. "We will be assisting Punjab police to probe Pathan's links in Gujarat," he said.
"We have been informed that Punjab police have found a few cell phone numbers of Rajkot and Ahmedabad residents from the call list on the cell phone recovered from Pathan. We have traced those numbers to a few shopkeepers in Ahmedabad and Rajkot. We are also probing whether Pathan had gone to Kutch and other coastal regions in the state," said an ATS official.
"This is the first time we have come across an alleged ISI agent who is deaf and dumb. Pathan was picked up by Ambala police on January 14, but as he was deaf and dumb, cops had a hard time interrogating him. However, during the interrogation done with help of an expert, they claim to have found his links with Pakistan's ISI," said a senior ATS official.
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