Kolkata: Trinamool student leader held for being Pakistan spy

[ranjeet]

West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress once again embroiled into another controversy as the Kolkata Police Special Task Force (STF) on Sunday arrested three suspected ISI agents two of whom are known as Trinamool leaders in their neighborhood.

The trio, booked on charges of allegedly spying for Pakistani intelligence agency, has been identified as Ashfaque Ansari, his father Irshad Haidar Ansari and his close relative (maternal uncle) Jahangir Khan. They were arrested from Kolkata's port area on Sunday.

Sources said Ansari was Trinamool Congress' student arm Trinamool Chatra Parishad (TMCP) leader at Harimohan Ghosh College at Garden Reach area. It was learnt that Ansari became the general secretary (GS) of Harimohan Ghosh College in 2012 when the college union switched from the CPI-M's Students' Federation of India (SFI) to TMCP.

Ansari is a third year student of political science at the college and a Trinamool student leader. His father Irshad is also a Trinamool labor arm leader at Garden Reach Shipbuilders and popular party face in the locality too, sources said. He works as a peon with Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineering Ltd.

Police said they were allegedly involved in supporting suspected ISI agent Mohammad Eizaz, who was arrested on Friday from Meerut's Cantonment station in Uttar Pradesh, in getting fake Indian ID proofs. Police said several fake passports from Pakistan, Bangladesh and India along with many important documents and counterfeit currency were recovered from the men arrested.

The trio will be produced in the city's Bankshall Court on Monday.

"This is a dangerous sign that a Trinamool student leader is arrested on charges of antinational activities. The matter has to be investigated in details," said CPI-M Rajya Sabha MP and SFI all-India general secretary.


When asked about the issue, Trinamool Chatra Parishad president Ashok Rudra hesitantly said, "I have heard about it. I will find out. I cannot talk now… Ashfaque Ansari is no one of TMCP. He was removed from the students' arm about two months ago."

Earlier this month, the Kolkata Police STF had also arrested two suspected ISI agents Akhtar Khan and his brother Zafar Khan from the city. They were produced before the Bankshall Court on Sunday. The investigating agency got the lead of Ansari after interrogating Akhtar and Zafar.

"I am not at all surprised at the development. The very fact that Bengal has turned into a safe terror haven was proven after the Khagragarh accidental blast in 2014. These anti national terror activities are taking place under the political cover of the state's ruling Trinamool Congress," said BJP's state unit president Rahul Sinha.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/tmc-student-leader-held-for-being-pakistan-spy/1/534467.html

Mamta Didi is working overtime to maintain secularism and tolerance level of India.

@kaykay @Rain Man @Tridibans @Mike_Brando @JanjaWeed

 

[Dash]

West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress once again embroiled into another controversy as the Kolkata Police Special Task Force (STF) on Sunday arrested three suspected ISI agents two of whom are known as Trinamool leaders in their neighborhood.

The trio, booked on charges of allegedly spying for Pakistani intelligence agency, has been identified as Ashfaque Ansari, his father Irshad Haidar Ansari and his close relative (maternal uncle) Jahangir Khan. They were arrested from Kolkata's port area on Sunday.

Sources said Ansari was Trinamool Congress' student arm Trinamool Chatra Parishad (TMCP) leader at Harimohan Ghosh College at Garden Reach area. It was learnt that Ansari became the general secretary (GS) of Harimohan Ghosh College in 2012 when the college union switched from the CPI-M's Students' Federation of India (SFI) to TMCP.

Ansari is a third year student of political science at the college and a Trinamool student leader. His father Irshad is also a Trinamool labor arm leader at Garden Reach Shipbuilders and popular party face in the locality too, sources said. He works as a peon with Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineering Ltd.

Police said they were allegedly involved in supporting suspected ISI agent Mohammad Eizaz, who was arrested on Friday from Meerut's Cantonment station in Uttar Pradesh, in getting fake Indian ID proofs. Police said several fake passports from Pakistan, Bangladesh and India along with many important documents and counterfeit currency were recovered from the men arrested.

The trio will be produced in the city's Bankshall Court on Monday.

"This is a dangerous sign that a Trinamool student leader is arrested on charges of antinational activities. The matter has to be investigated in details," said CPI-M Rajya Sabha MP and SFI all-India general secretary.


When asked about the issue, Trinamool Chatra Parishad president Ashok Rudra hesitantly said, "I have heard about it. I will find out. I cannot talk now… Ashfaque Ansari is no one of TMCP. He was removed from the students' arm about two months ago."

Earlier this month, the Kolkata Police STF had also arrested two suspected ISI agents Akhtar Khan and his brother Zafar Khan from the city. They were produced before the Bankshall Court on Sunday. The investigating agency got the lead of Ansari after interrogating Akhtar and Zafar.

"I am not at all surprised at the development. The very fact that Bengal has turned into a safe terror haven was proven after the Khagragarh accidental blast in 2014. These anti national terror activities are taking place under the political cover of the state's ruling Trinamool Congress," said BJP's state unit president Rahul Sinha.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/tmc-student-leader-held-for-being-pakistan-spy/1/534467.html

Mamta Didi is working overtime to maintain secularism and tolerance level of India.

@kaykay @Rain Man @Tridibans @Mike_Brando @JanjaWeed

"I am not at all surprised at the development. The very fact that Bengal has turned into a safe terror haven was proven after the Khagragarh accidental blast in 2014. These anti national terror activities are taking place under the political cover of the state's ruling Trinamool Congress," said BJP's state unit president Rahul Sinha.

Give more ration card to BD guys.

 

[Mamsalaphala]

STF arrests 3 over ‘ISI links’, two of them ‘TMC workers’ | The Indian Express

‘Pakistani spy’ held in UP’s Meerut Friday had taken names of these three.

The Special Task Force of the Kolkata Police Sunday arrested a contract labourer, his son and another relative for their alleged links to the Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). Irshad Ansari (51), a contract labourer with Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited (GRSE), his son Asfaq Ansari (23) and relative Mohammed Jahangir – were arrested this afternoon from Dr Sudhir Bose Road in the Iqbalpur police station area in the southern part of the city, a senior STF officer said.

Significantly, Irshad was an active member of TMC-backed labour union of the port area whereas Asfaq was the general secretary of Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad — student wing of the TMC — at a college in Watgunge in south Kolkata. While the local TMCP leaders admitted that Irshad was a TMC worker, state TMCP president Ashok Rudra claimed Asfaq had been “removed two months ago over anti-party activities”.


Giving details, an STF officials said all the three arrested are residents of the city’s Garden Reach area. Besides recovering several documents revealing their links to the ISI, the STF also seized fake indian currency notes with a face value Rs 2 lakh from Irshad and Rs 1.5 lakh each from Asfaq and Jahangir, the official added.

“A hand-drawn map of the GRSE and the Netaji Subhas Dock were seized from Irshad who has been working with the warship building company for quite some time. We are investigating his intention and whether or not he had passed on the maps of any other sensitive area to the Pakistani agency,” the officer said.
They have been booked under the IPC sections 120B (criminal conspiracy), 121 (waging or attempting to wage war against the Government of India) and 489B (using as genuine forged or counterfeit currency notes or bank notes) among otehrs.

Sources in the Kolkata Police said primary investigation revealed that both Irshad and Jahangir have relatives in Karachi and were “hired” by the ISI “as their agents” during their visit to the neighbouring country.

“Both have been working as ISI agents for over ten years and their primary job was to pass on information from India. We are further investigating their roles,” STF deputy commissioner Akhilesh Kumar Chaturvedi said.

The officer said the information regarding the country’s defence was passed on to the ISI, electronically and manually, by the accused. “They were using WhatsApp, sometimes emails and at times manually passed on the information,” he said, adding that several visits to Bangladesh were made by the accused in recent times. The role of Asfaq is yet to be ascertained, an officer said.

Asked whether the persons had any connection with the suspected Pakistani agent arrested by the Uttar Pradesh STF in Meerut on Friday, the officer said: “We cannot neglect that. We will get in touch with the UP STF.”

Sources, however, said the person arrested in UP, Mohammad Eizaz who changed his name to Mohammad Kalam in India, was given shelter by Irshad at his Garden Reach home.

“Irshad had helped Kalam obtain fake documents such as a voter ID card with a Bareilly address and an Aadhaar card.”

Significantly, UP STF officials had told The Indian Express Friday that Eizaz had admitted to have been introduced to Mohammad Irshad, arrested on Saturday. “Irshad helped Eizaz with fake documents through one of his relatives Jahangir, a resident of Kolkata,” the UP STF had said after Eizaz’s arrest.
Eizaz, on Saturday, was remanded to 14 days’ judicial custody by the special court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Sanjay Singh in Meerut. The Meerut’s Sadar police, too, has sought his remand for seven days for interrogation, for which a hearing would be held in the court on Monday, ATS Circle Officer Ankit Kumar said.

Eizaz — a resident of Taramadi Chowk at Irfanabad in Islamabad — was arrested when he was on his way to Delhi. Documents related to Indian Army, Pakistani identity proof, fake voter identity of West Bengal, fake Aadhaar card with a Bareilly district address, Delhi Metro card, laptop, and pen drives were found on him.

Meanwhile, family members of the three alleged that the Kolkata Police has “cooked up” a case since all three had been reported “missing” since Thursday morning. Family members claimed to have lodged a “missing diary” with the Garden Reach Police Station Thursday night itself. “We just have relatives in Pakistan whom we visit sometimes,” a family member, who declined to be named, said.

The police also said they are investigating if the three arrested had any connection with suspected ISI agents Akhtar and Jaffar Khan, who had been arrested a few weeks ago.

ISI agent arrested in UP with sensitive documents

Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force arrests suspected ISI agent; Indian Army

The ISI agent is said to be Mohammad Eizaz alias Mohammad Kalam and he used to allegedly send vital information about the Indian Army to Pakistani intelligence agency ISI.

Documents related to Indian Army, Pakistani identity proof, fake voter identity of West Bengal, fake Aadhar card in address of Bareilly district, Delhi Metro card, laptop, pen drives were recovered from his possession.

"In 2013, he visited Pakistan and came into contact with ISI agent there. We are investigating further into their roles", he said.

"They had been visiting Pakistan for several years and there they were trained by the ISI for this specific service.

The espionage racket run by them is supported by Pakistan's ISI", Yadav said, adding that the duo has been arrested under various provisions of IPC and Official Secrets Act. "We will get in touch with the UP STF".

All the four persons have been booked in this connection, the CO said, adding that efforts are on to arrest them.

The court of Special Chief Judicial Magistrate Sanjay Singh yesterday passed the order placing Eizaz in judicial custody for 14 days, ATS Circle Officer Ankit Kumar said today.

 

[kaykay]

As I said, agent arrested in Bareilly will lead to arrest of many moles....lols. Good development though

 

[vayuputhra]

Bomb blasts in trinamool congress office, terrorists caught from trinamool congress offices, now ISI agents caught from their offices, dushman kahan hai? TMC ke office main hai.
TMC is competing with lungilands jamathis, mamatha where is your loyalty? Who knows she herself is an ISI agent

Bomb blasts in trinamool congress office, terrorists caught from trinamool congress offices, now ISI agents caught from their offices, dushman kahan hai? TMC ke office main hai.
TMC is competing with lungilands jamathis, mamatha where is your loyalty? Who knows she herself is an ISI agent

 

[Jacob Martin]

Hope this does not become another "tolerance" debate...brace for impact!

 

[Mamsalaphala]

As I said, agent arrested in Bareilly will lead to arrest of many moles....lols. Good development though

What your forgot to Add was

1. Terrorism has No Religion, especially islam
2. ISI Agents have No religion
3. ISIS are not "True" muslims


@LaBong @rubyjackass Kindly advice.

 

[dray]

She knows that Muslim votes can keep her in power, and she will do everything to please all types of them, the list is actually very long...and main opposition party CPM will not object to it in fear of losing the Muslim votes further.

 

[Mamsalaphala]

Hope this does not become another "tolerance" debate...brace for impact!

She knows that Muslim votes can keep her in power, and she will do everything to please all types of them, the list is actually very long...and main opposition party CPM will not object to it in fear of losing the Muslim votes further.

That is only HALF the truth.

She also knows that Hindus in W. Bengal are a castrated lot who will not dare speak up for either themselves or Bengal or India.

I don't know why most Bongs seems to gloss over this part.

 

[Jacob Martin]

Hindus in W. Bengal are a castrated lot

But when it comes to organizing for hooliganism and political violence they are right on top!

 

[Mamsalaphala]

But when it comes to organizing for hooliganism and political violence they are right on top!

 

[Mike_Brando]

West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress once again embroiled into another controversy as the Kolkata Police Special Task Force (STF) on Sunday arrested three suspected ISI agents two of whom are known as Trinamool leaders in their neighborhood.

The trio, booked on charges of allegedly spying for Pakistani intelligence agency, has been identified as Ashfaque Ansari, his father Irshad Haidar Ansari and his close relative (maternal uncle) Jahangir Khan. They were arrested from Kolkata's port area on Sunday.

Sources said Ansari was Trinamool Congress' student arm Trinamool Chatra Parishad (TMCP) leader at Harimohan Ghosh College at Garden Reach area. It was learnt that Ansari became the general secretary (GS) of Harimohan Ghosh College in 2012 when the college union switched from the CPI-M's Students' Federation of India (SFI) to TMCP.

Ansari is a third year student of political science at the college and a Trinamool student leader. His father Irshad is also a Trinamool labor arm leader at Garden Reach Shipbuilders and popular party face in the locality too, sources said. He works as a peon with Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineering Ltd.

Police said they were allegedly involved in supporting suspected ISI agent Mohammad Eizaz, who was arrested on Friday from Meerut's Cantonment station in Uttar Pradesh, in getting fake Indian ID proofs. Police said several fake passports from Pakistan, Bangladesh and India along with many important documents and counterfeit currency were recovered from the men arrested.

The trio will be produced in the city's Bankshall Court on Monday.

"This is a dangerous sign that a Trinamool student leader is arrested on charges of antinational activities. The matter has to be investigated in details," said CPI-M Rajya Sabha MP and SFI all-India general secretary.


When asked about the issue, Trinamool Chatra Parishad president Ashok Rudra hesitantly said, "I have heard about it. I will find out. I cannot talk now… Ashfaque Ansari is no one of TMCP. He was removed from the students' arm about two months ago."

Earlier this month, the Kolkata Police STF had also arrested two suspected ISI agents Akhtar Khan and his brother Zafar Khan from the city. They were produced before the Bankshall Court on Sunday. The investigating agency got the lead of Ansari after interrogating Akhtar and Zafar.

"I am not at all surprised at the development. The very fact that Bengal has turned into a safe terror haven was proven after the Khagragarh accidental blast in 2014. These anti national terror activities are taking place under the political cover of the state's ruling Trinamool Congress," said BJP's state unit president Rahul Sinha.

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/tmc-student-leader-held-for-being-pakistan-spy/1/534467.html

Mamta Didi is working overtime to maintain secularism and tolerance level of India.

@kaykay @Rain Man @Tridibans @Mike_Brando @JanjaWeed

He was an anti-national from the beginning.At first he was a khangress guy then he went on to join the CPIM and when he saw the advent of TMCP in Bengal he joined them like so many others who joined the party during that time.He was a part time goon in his area and resorted to hooliganism every now and then.At last the TMCP high command grew tired of this gunda and kicked him out of the party.Now i am not defending the TMCP but the fact remains that TMCP kicked this guy out of their organization about a couple of years back!!

 

[ranjeet]

From Laal Salaam to Haara Gulaam.
Mamata Banerjee at Jamiat rally, says will always work for minorities | The Indian Express

 

[dray]

That is only HALF the truth.

She also knows that Hindus in W. Bengal are a castrated lot who will not dare speak up for either themselves or Bengal or India.

I don't know why most Bongs seems to gloss over this part.

Those Bengalis who come on TV as some kind of 'intellectuals' have the compulsion to project themselves as 'secular' and 'pro-poor', they won't speak against any blatant Muslim appeasement policy, neither they will speak for Tata or any other industry, but common people know what's wrong...the problem is that both the party in power and party in opposition do the same kind of politics. And don't talk about BJP of Bengal, that's run by some worthless imbeciles, they don't attract the pro-BJP people also.

 

[ranjeet]

He was an anti-national from the beginning.At first he was a khangress guy then he went on to join the CPIM and when he saw the advent of TMCP in Bengal he joined them like so many others who joined the party during that time.He was a part time goon in his area and resorted to hooliganism every now and then.At last the TMCP high command grew tired of this gunda and kicked him out of the party.Now i am not defending the TMCP but the fact remains that TMCP kicked this guy out of their organization about a couple of years back!!

From article

When asked about the issue, Trinamool Chatra Parishad president Ashok Rudra hesitantly said, "I have heard about it. I will find out. I cannot talk now… Ashfaque Ansari is no one of TMCP. He was removed from the students' arm about two months ago."