Alleged Pakistani spy Mohammed Sayeed Ali's Indian passport was issued by the Lucknow regional passport office without the police verification process, the Lucknow deputy inspector general has admitted in a report to the state director general of police on Tuesday.
Lucknow's additional director general A K Jain said: "The inquiry has found the Lucknow police did not receive any requisition from the passport office seeking the verification for this particular applicant. Instead Ali's application carries the verification request number of a completely different person, giving the impression that his verification had been done too." Jain suspects Ali had inside help.
The Delhi Police's Special Cell on Monday night arrested two persons from Lucknow — Mohammad Arshad of the Qaiserbagh area and Amman alias Chand of Adil Nagar. Ali, who was in Lucknow on Monday, pointed them out as the men who had helped him procure the passport, a driving licence and a PAN card.
The DIG's report states that Ali's form was submitted at the passport office on April 24, 2005 (file: A 04812905). The passport officer register shows that a request for police verification was sent on May 24, though the police suspect the request was not actually forwarded.
However, Ali's application was approved with a police verification report number S-649. But the police's local intelligence unit has said verification S-649 was of applicant Sunil Saxena of Sunderbagh.
The two references given in the passport form — Abrar Ali and Aftab Ahmed—- of Jamboor Khana locality, Qaiserbagh, were also false as nobody by those names have lived in the locality.
Despite several efforts, Passport Officer J P Singh could not be reached for comments.
The DIG inquiry report has also revealed that the ration card (085446) attached with Ali's application form was issued in the name of his 'father' Syed Ali Ahmed on May 18, 1998 and it contained names of Ali, his 'mother' Sajida and 'sister' Nasima. A transfer certificate of Class VIII issued from Baba Thakurdas Higher Secondary School, Ghasiyari Mandi, Qaiserbagh, was attached with the passport form.
Jain said in order to get these documents, Ali's two accomplices had arranged fake marksheets of Aminabad Inter College, Lucknow. Income tax returns were also submitted for 2003, 2004 and 2005.
Arshu and Chand had helped Ali open an account (no-145246) at the Bank of Baroda's Hazratganj branch on October 8, 2005.
Meanwhile, a team of Uttar Pradesh's anti-terrorist force questioned Ali in Delhi on Tuesday. A senior officer said: "They were more interested to know if Ali was in anyway a threat to the Narora nuclear energy plant in the state."
Ali, 40, has allegedly said he came into spying because it offered good money. He is a divorcee and his two children live with their mother in Lahore, he told interrogators.
Meanwhile, Ali's case has exposed how callous the Delhi Police is in verifying tenants. Ali had stayed in Delhi's Shahdara for the last one and a half years. It has now emerged his landlord Akram Saifi's brother had personally visited the locality police station to check on the verification. The police missed that the Lucknow address was fake.
Delhi Police had intelligent input on Ali in August NEW DELHI: Sources have confirmed there were intelligence inputs as early as August 7 to warn the Delhi Police of a 'suspicious individual' living in the Shahdara area.
The local police had carried out a massive search in Shahdara — the Welcome area, Janata Colony, Kavi Nagar, Gullu ka Takiya area and Mansarovar Park — in August but could not find Mohammed Sayeed Ali.
Ali lived in a one-room accommodation at A-24/1, Jyoti Colony. A senior officer said: "The input did not mention this man's name, only where he could be staying."
Lucknow's anti-terrorist squad sources have said that Ali revealed during interrogation that he was assigned the job of collecting details about the Hindon air base, and also cultivate 'informers' in the Air Force. He told officers he was to soon return to Pakistan.
Lucknow's additional director general A K Jain said: "The inquiry has found the Lucknow police did not receive any requisition from the passport office seeking the verification for this particular applicant. Instead Ali's application carries the verification request number of a completely different person, giving the impression that his verification had been done too." Jain suspects Ali had inside help.
The Delhi Police's Special Cell on Monday night arrested two persons from Lucknow — Mohammad Arshad of the Qaiserbagh area and Amman alias Chand of Adil Nagar. Ali, who was in Lucknow on Monday, pointed them out as the men who had helped him procure the passport, a driving licence and a PAN card.
The DIG's report states that Ali's form was submitted at the passport office on April 24, 2005 (file: A 04812905). The passport officer register shows that a request for police verification was sent on May 24, though the police suspect the request was not actually forwarded.
However, Ali's application was approved with a police verification report number S-649. But the police's local intelligence unit has said verification S-649 was of applicant Sunil Saxena of Sunderbagh.
The two references given in the passport form — Abrar Ali and Aftab Ahmed—- of Jamboor Khana locality, Qaiserbagh, were also false as nobody by those names have lived in the locality.
Despite several efforts, Passport Officer J P Singh could not be reached for comments.
The DIG inquiry report has also revealed that the ration card (085446) attached with Ali's application form was issued in the name of his 'father' Syed Ali Ahmed on May 18, 1998 and it contained names of Ali, his 'mother' Sajida and 'sister' Nasima. A transfer certificate of Class VIII issued from Baba Thakurdas Higher Secondary School, Ghasiyari Mandi, Qaiserbagh, was attached with the passport form.
Jain said in order to get these documents, Ali's two accomplices had arranged fake marksheets of Aminabad Inter College, Lucknow. Income tax returns were also submitted for 2003, 2004 and 2005.
Arshu and Chand had helped Ali open an account (no-145246) at the Bank of Baroda's Hazratganj branch on October 8, 2005.
Meanwhile, a team of Uttar Pradesh's anti-terrorist force questioned Ali in Delhi on Tuesday. A senior officer said: "They were more interested to know if Ali was in anyway a threat to the Narora nuclear energy plant in the state."
Ali, 40, has allegedly said he came into spying because it offered good money. He is a divorcee and his two children live with their mother in Lahore, he told interrogators.
Meanwhile, Ali's case has exposed how callous the Delhi Police is in verifying tenants. Ali had stayed in Delhi's Shahdara for the last one and a half years. It has now emerged his landlord Akram Saifi's brother had personally visited the locality police station to check on the verification. The police missed that the Lucknow address was fake.
Delhi Police had intelligent input on Ali in August NEW DELHI: Sources have confirmed there were intelligence inputs as early as August 7 to warn the Delhi Police of a 'suspicious individual' living in the Shahdara area.
The local police had carried out a massive search in Shahdara — the Welcome area, Janata Colony, Kavi Nagar, Gullu ka Takiya area and Mansarovar Park — in August but could not find Mohammed Sayeed Ali.
Ali lived in a one-room accommodation at A-24/1, Jyoti Colony. A senior officer said: "The input did not mention this man's name, only where he could be staying."
Lucknow's anti-terrorist squad sources have said that Ali revealed during interrogation that he was assigned the job of collecting details about the Hindon air base, and also cultivate 'informers' in the Air Force. He told officers he was to soon return to Pakistan.
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