New Delhi: Interrogation of Bangladeshi nationals, arrested recently in Lucknow, has highlighted again the unholy nexus ISI agents have established using the Dhaka soil for perpetrating violence in this country.

According to a report submitted to the government about using Bangladesh soil to boost anti-national activities in the country, Mamun-ur-Rasheed and Zafar Naim were arrested in Lucknow along with 400 grams of brown sugar and 11 Indian passports fraudulently obtained from Regional Passport Office Kolkata, sources said.

Rasheed came to India for studies and got married to an Indian Muslim lady and also procured an Indian passport from Regional Passport Office, Lucknow.

However, during his travel to Dhaka, he used his Bangladeshi passport, which had been renewed from time to time.

Rasheed revealed during interrogation that in 1999, he was recruited by an official of Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka identified as Dil Fayaz to work as an agent of subversion for the sake of Islam and for some handsome monetary rewards, the sources said.

At his instance, Rasheed, armed with a fake CBI identity card, entered the country.

The accused entered into a criminal conspiracy with another person Zafar Naim and conducted fake interviews of only Muslim candidates purportedly for government job in the Human Resources Ministry.

Rasheed and Naim shortlisted seven people including two women after testing their loyalty. These selected persons were to be sent to Bangladesh and Pakistan for training in arms and explosives and subsequent re-induction into India for sabotage and subversion, the sources said.

Rasheed also revealed that at the instance of the Pakistani official at Dhaka, he fraudulently obtained 11 Indian passports for nine men and two women from Regional Passport Office in Kolkata.

The accused said that the passports were meant for ISI agents who would have entered the country under their new assumed Indian identities, the sources said.

Rasheed also said the ISI officials had been regularly asking him to collect information about deployment of troops in Lucknow, Kanpur, Bareilly and other places in Uttar Pradesh, the sources added.

The accused also stated that ISI was trying to recruit operators from Bangladesh intelligence agencies and the organisations like Jamaat-e-Islamia and other Muslim groups of Commilla, Bobi Ganj, Sylhet, Brahmanbaria, Feni, Cox Bazar and Khulna.

PTI