New Delhi, May 16
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested an accused, who had absconded after jumping bail, in an espionage case involving a Sri Lankan and a Pakistani national.
The accused was identified as Nuruddin alias Rafi, who was carrying a cash reward of Rs 5 lakh. He was nabbed from the Rajiv Nagar area of Mysuru, Karnataka. The court had declared him a proclaimed offender on May 7 this year.
The agency then conducted searches and seized several “incriminating materials”, including mobile phones, laptop, pen drives and a drone, were recovered.
The case relates to a terror conspiracy by Sri Lankan national Muhammed Sakir Hussain and Amir Zubair Siddique, a Pakistani national National employed at the Pakistan High Commission in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
They had conspired to carry out explosions at the US Consulate in Chennai and Israel Embassy in Bengaluru in 2014, the NIA claimed.
NIA investigations have revealed that Nuruddin was involved in financing the anti-national espionage activities through high-quality fake Indian currency notes at the behest of the accused Pakistani national.
