Microsoft employee and former NSC official Mukesh Saini, who was arrested by the special cell of Delhi Police on the charges of spying and criminal conspiracy, was today remanded in six days police custody.

Police had sought eight days remand to take him to Mumbai and Kolkata.

Now, police say Saini will be taken to Mumbai, where he is alleged to have stored some classified information in a computer. Police say Saini alone can operate and access it to retrieve the data.

Police is looking to verify whether these were same documents passed on to Rosamna Minchew, a US diplomat, who has now left the country.

As reported first by The Sunday Express on July 2, Saini — who was the co-ordinator of the Indo-US Cyber Security Forum— had allegedly introduced Minchew to S S Paul, an National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) analyst arrested earlier for spying. Paul was arrested by Delhi Police on June 10 and is now in judicial custody.

According to sources, the computer in Mumbai contains secret information passed by intelligence agencies to the NSCS, where Saini was the information security specialist who headed the National Information Security Co-ordination Cell.

It was also revealed that Minchew, along with Paul and Saini, visited Mumbai in the first week of September. They then flew to Kolkata for a brief stay.

The police has called all the records of their stay from both the cities and the calls made by them during their stay. A team of special cell officers is already camping in Kolkata for collecting evidence against Paul.

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