Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Anti Terrorist
Squad team probing issuance of passport to a suspected
Pakistani spy Syed Amir Ali from here, on Thursday said that it had
detected gross procedural anomalies both in the Regional
Passport office and Local Intelligence Unit.
"Investigations, so far have revealed that there were
gross procedural anomalies both in the RPO and LIU, which
gives report for issuance of passport," Additional Director
General of Police, Law and Order AK Jain told reporters here.
"There is some person both at RPO and LIU, who was
involved in issuance of passport to Ali, and those who helped
him knew the system of both the offices very well," Jain said.
Stating that the matter is very serious, the Additional
DGP said that ATS team was investigating all the 27 files, of
which eight have been traced so far, whose report was sent by
LIU on June 9, 2005. Ali`s file was among these 27 files.
"We are also contemplating to interrogate Ali, who was
arrested in New Delhi, as to how he procured his passport and
those who helped him," Jain said adding that this was
necessary for making fool-proof arrangement at all the three
passport offices in the state at Bareilly, Ghaziabad and
Lucknow.
Hinting that probe could take some time, Additional
Director General AK Jain said that the ATS team was also
focusing on hand writing and would match it with the
employees, if needed.
The process of verifying the addresses mentioned in all
the 27 files was underway and a possibility that some more
cases of issuance of passports on fake addresses might be
detected, Jain said.
About the functioning of the Local Intelligence Unit,
which is party of state police, the Additional DGP said, "No
record of these 27 files were found in the LIU office and it`s
record keeping was found to be worse."
On Tuesday, Jain had said that the LIU report attached to
the file of Pakistani national at the passport office was fake
and no such report was dispatched on June nine.
Two men, suspected to have helped Ali in procuring the
passport and driving licence using forged documents, were
arrested by the Anti-Terrorist Squad of the Uttar Pradesh
Police here on November 17.
Ali, who the police say hails from Karachi, was caught
at Delhi`s IGI airport on Saturday, while trying to board a
flight to Damman in Saudi Arabia allegedly using the fake
passport he procured from Lucknow, where he stayed between
2005 and 2006.
Bureau Report
