ISLAMABAD - The Counter Terrorism Wing (CTW) of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has launched a probe against an official of capital police on charges of leaking sensitive information to a foreign diplomat.
A close family member of accused Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Zahoor has refuted the charges against the official saying the ‘episode surrounding his arrest’ as narrated by FIA in the first information report (FIR) was devoid of facts.
The CTW had arrested ASI Zahoor Ahmed of Golra Police Station on charges of sharing sensitive information with a foreign diplomat/agent. He had been booked under different sections of Official Secret Act, 1923, and the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947. The senior police officers of capital police themselves handed over Zahoor to CTW and the incident of his arrest narrated in the FIR is totally baseless, a close family member of the accused police official told The Nation on condition of anonymity.
“My cousin is being victimised for investigating a case connected with some powerful quarters,” he alleged. According to the FIR, a credible source informed CTW that Zahoor is planning to meet a foreign diplomat/agent at Metro Bus Station near Ufone Tower at Jinnah Avenue of the capital with “the intent to communicate and deliver secret information/documents.”
The source confirmed CTW that diplomat has picked ASI on a white Toyota Corolla vehicle having black tinted glasses.
The CTW team waited in the same area and took the ASI into custody following the car returned after some time and dropped him.
Two mobile phones, a wallet, two USBs, one USB extension device, and a yellow envelope containing Rs 50,000 recovered from the accused official at the time of his arrest, according to FIR.