The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) today arrested an alleged ISI spy from Kanpur and said the man was on the payroll of the Pakistani intelligence agency.

Additional DG (ATS) A K Jain said the arrested man, Imtiyaz Ali (52), is a native of Jhansi and was assured of Rs 5,000 per month by the ISI. He had returned from Pakistan in February last after training at an ISI camp in Karachi. Ali had received Rs 30,000 through Western Union Money Transfer three months ago, Jain said.

The ADG said Ali was asked to send vital information about the movement of troops, the routine drills and the frequency of firing practice at the Indian Army establishment in Jhansi. He had also been asked to recruit ISI spies to collect information about Army stations at Agra, Mathura and Meerut.

The ATS has recovered several SIM cards on fake IDs and the documents containing details about the Indian Army from the possession of the accused.

Ali, a mechanic, has allegedly told the interrogators that he had joined the ISI to earn money for his son’s admission in any private engineering college.

The ADG said a team had been trailing Ali after they came across frequent phone calls being made to Pakistan from Jhansi and the person passing on information about day-to-day development in the cantonment area.

The cops laid a trap and caught Imtiyaz Ali (52) from Sachendi area of Kanpur today.

According to Jain, Ali revealed during his interrogation that he, along with his mother, had left for Karachi on November 20, 2008 to visit his sister, who is married there.

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