The Mumbai Crime Department just lately arrested a 60-year-old man within the Versova space of Mumbai. He was arrested for allegedly possessing cast identification papers linked to the Bhabha Atomic Analysis Centre (BARC).
The suspect, recognized as Akhtar Qutubuddin Hussaini Ahmed, who additionally makes use of the alias Alexander Palmer, was present in possession of a number of counterfeit passports, Aadhaar and PAN playing cards, and BARC identification playing cards bearing the title Ali Raza Hussain.
Authorities additionally confiscated a number of suspicious paperwork, together with 14 maps and purported nuclear information.
Akhtar had been impersonating a BARC scientist beneath a number of aliases, reported ABPlive.com, citing police sources.
Confederate Apprehended
A subsequent investigation led to the arrest of a 34-year-old confederate, Munazzil Khan, on Monday. Khan, who runs a cyber café in Jharkhand, is believed to have helped Akhtar fabricate the solid paperwork, together with instructional certificates.
The probe by the Crime Intelligence Unit (CIU) additional revealed that Khan allegedly ready two pretend passports for Akhtar’s brother, Adil Husaini, utilizing the tackle of their ancestral house in Jamshedpur — a property that was bought practically three many years in the past in 1995. Each brothers, Akhtar and Adil, are suspected of getting travelled overseas utilizing these false identities.
Akhtar, who initially misled officers by claiming his brother was lifeless, has been remanded in judicial custody till 12 November. Khan stays in police custody till 1 November.
Police are at present questioning the suspects to find out the motive behind creating the pretend paperwork and to establish whether or not a bigger felony community or wider felony exercise is concerned within the operation.
The Crime Intelligence Unit is now tracing a number of worldwide calls allegedly made by Akhtar in latest months. This exercise has prompted suspicions of international connections probably tied to the alleged nuclear information present in his possession.
Authorities are scrutinising his name data to find out whether or not he was involved with abroad networks or handlers.
Historical past of Deception
The continued probe has uncovered that Akhtar has a decades-long historical past of deception. In 2004, he was deported from Dubai after falsely claiming to be a scientist with entry to “categorised data”. Regardless of this setback, he continued to journey internationally, visiting places together with Dubai and Tehran, utilizing his cast passports and faux identities.
