Lucknow, Sept. 6 :
Lucknow, Sept. 6:
A Major suspended on bribery charge was arrested here today for passing information to the ISI on army installations.
Taj Mohammad was caught red-handed tipping off two Nepalese nationals in Lucknow. Mohammad, previously attached to the army's Central Command headquartered at Lucknow, claimed that the ISI had recruited 'serving and retired army officers' to work for it through the Pakistan embassy in Nepal.
The Special Task Force team, which caught Mohammad along with a retired army subedar, Sant Ram Rai, has recovered from them incriminating documents showing they were on the payroll of the embassy.
Along with a fake passport, the two had with them copies of their TA/DA bills that had been reimbursed by the embassy.
The task force has also arrested the two Nepalese spies working for Pakistan.
The spies, identified as Naushad Ahmed and Mohammad Shakir from Biratnagar and Kosi Anchal in Nepal, said they had been 'recruited' by Pakistani embassy officials to 'bring retired and serving' army officials to Nepal so that they could be 'bought over to' pass information about the armed forces' movement.
The spies had with them minutes of some of the most sensitive and top-secret meetings held by the home department and army officials on ISI activities.
Ram Rai, the retired subedar, who possessed vital information about the movement of security forces and maps of defence installations, revealed that he was in contact with some serving army officials who have already been 'bought over'.
The ex-subedar, who was caught with proof that he had been paid $ 600 for 'previous information' he passed on to the Pakistan embassy in Nepal, said he had been at the job of 'trapping and luring' serving army personnel for a year.
The police also recovered from the Pakistani spies letterheads of a BSP legislator and a Rajya Sabha MP. The police refused to divulge the names of the politicians as it was 'too sensitive' in nature.
Task force sources said they are keeping a tab on the movements of some army officials and that some 'major' arrests are lined up. The STF has already arrested 12 Pakistani agents with ISI links this year.