Hawala network assisting ISI
in India, say Rajasthan police
Kamla Bora in Jaipur
The Rajasthan Police has busted a racket of the hawala network assisting Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, arranging payments to its agents in the country.
Initial investigations by the police have revealed that some hawala dealers operating from Bombay make payments to Pakistani agents in India on directions from the ISI, Inspector General Police (Intelligence) Kanhaiya Lal told mediapersons here.
The transactions for ISI activities in India were revealed during
interrogation of Pakistani spy Muneer Ahmed, who was arrested in the
Air Force base area in Jodhpur recently. Ahmed was in the area, posing as Mahendra Singh Chaudhary for the last few years, gathering defence
information and passing it to the ISI in Pakistan, the police said.
On the basis of information supplied by the spy, the Rajasthan Police arrested hawala dealer from Bombay Iqbal Motiwala in Jaipur on May 20. He was produced before Chief Judicial Magistrate Pushpendra Singh Hada, who remanded him to police custody till May 28.
Motiwala, a resident of Agripada, is a diamond jewellery broker who arranged payments to the Pakistan spy in Jodhpur, the police said.
Muneer revealed that whenever he needed money he used to telephone the ISI authorities in Pakistan, who in turn directed the hawala dealers in Bombay to arrange payments, which immediately arrived.
Lal said Motiwala sent Rs10,000 to Ahmed in Jodhpur last year through Abdul Wahab and Harish Dhakkan, owner of a shipping service having its office in Jodhpur. Motiwala sent two more installments of Rs 12,000 each to Ahmed this year through Shabbir Ahmed, a junior engineer in Northern Railway, taking help of Isaaji Thakur and Aslem.
The police said Motiwala's wife is a resident of Karachi in Pakistan and
he had visited the country at least seven times.
The police feel that the hawala transaction revelation is a breakthrough.
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