A team of Delhi Special Cell brought alleged Pakistani spy Mohammad Sayeed Ali alias Abdul Razzak to Lucknow on Monday evening. The Delhi Police is collaborating with Uttar Pradesh anti-Terror Squad to investigate his links who helped him procure documents on a fake address from Lucknow.

Ali was taken to the house at Vijay Khand in Gomti Nagar, where he lived during his stay in the city. The police confirmed from the landlord that Ali had stayed in the house between 2005 and 2006.

The police will also take Ali to the house at Jamboor Khana, Qaiserbagh on Monday night. The address is mentioned in Ali’s passport as his residence.

Ali was arrested from Delhi’s IGI airport on Thursday. He was carrying other suspicious documents, including photographs of Delhi and Meerut cantonment areas and was about to take a flight to Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

Uttar Pradesh ADG (Law and Order) Brij Lal said the passport issued in Mohammad Sayeed Ali’s name on July 5, 2005 carried the address 117/84, Jamboor Khana. But police found that it was an old building inhabited by six families. All of them denied that he stayed there.

The Delhi police team, along with the ATS officers, visited the passport office and collected details from official records. They will also be collecting details from the Lucknow Income Tax office and the Regional Transport Office.

According to the preliminary investigation, Ali had visited Lucknow in May 2005 and stayed for over 10 months. He first procured a PAN card and a driving licence on the same address and later applied for a passport. He worked as an electrician and stayed in a rented house in Gomti Nagar Extension, said Lal.

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