Indore: man detained for alleged links with ISI; claims framed by estranged Chinese wife

The Indore Police have detained a 40-year-old man, who stayed in China and Hong Kong between 2005 and 2018, on the suspicion of having links with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency and terrorist organisations, an official said on Tuesday.

Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra said the Indore Police apprehended the man, named Sarfaraz, following an input from the National Investigation Agency and he was being questioned.

Indore's Deputy Commissioner of Police Rajat Saklecha, while refusing to name the suspect, said they had received an input from the Mumbai Police and the NIA that the man was suspected to be having links with the ISI and terrorist organisations.

The man was residing in Indore's Chandan Nagar police station limits, he said, adding the suspect was being questioned.

“This person has worked in China and Hong Kong between 2005 and 2018. During interrogation, the man in his defense said his case of divorce with a Chinese woman was underway in China and that her lawyer had made a false complaint against him to the Indian intelligence agencies,” the official said.

The Indore Police were conducting an investigation pertaining to this person from all angles in coordination with all the central and state agencies concerned, he said.

The police have yet not reached to any final conclusion about him, the official added.

(PTI)