‘Pakistani spy’ held in Ludhiana: Police

Adding that the accused conceded that he was Nizam Baksh,son of Allaudin tehsil Jahania,district Thanewal in Pakistan,Bansal said he had been living in Adrash Colony near Samrala Chowk.

Accompanied by ACP (North) P S Pannu and Kotwali SHO Manjinder Singh,Bansal said: “The man arrested has received training from the ISI and was sent to India in 2005. Though Baksh claims to have traveled to almost all major cities and towns of Punjab like Chandigarh,Jallandhar,Amritsar and others,his main base was Ludhiana where he worked as a contractor.”

The officer added: “Nizam was arrested from the office of a courier company. He has two mobile phones and we are checking his call logs. We have confiscated a receipt of Western Union Money Exchange. Baksh’s claim that his brother works in Dubai and sends him money later turned out to be false.”

The owners of the house where the accused lived as a tenant and his colleagues will be questioned,said Bansal adding: “We are trying to ascertain if Baksh has other people from Pakistan working with him.”