Cops obtain 5 e-mail addresses of Vishambar Agarwal, say his army accomplice also in custody
Cops obtain 5 e-mail addresses of Vishambar Agarwal, say his army accomplice also in custodyu00a0
Suspected Inter-Services Intelligence agent Vishambar Agarwal, who was arrested by the police last week, was reportedly operating five e-mail addresses and had accounts on social networking sites like Orkut and Facebook.
It was also learnt that apart from the sensitive material seized from Agarwal, he had also received a memory card containing photos of the Southern Command from army jawan Brijeshkumar Singh, who the police yesterday said they had taken into custody.
"We have taken custody of Brijeshkumar Singh and have initiated the process of his arrest," Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Anant Shinde told MiD DAY.
Agarwal was produced before the court of Judicial Magistrate (First Class) R L Wankhade yesterday around
3 pm after his police custody had ended. The police asked for seven-day police custody for Agarwal and gave no less than 10 reasons for it.
The court extended Agarwal's police custody till Friday.
Investigating officer from the Crime Branch Satish Govekar told the court that Agarwal used different names for his official documents ufffd Bishambar T Agarwal for PAN card, Bishambar Tarachand Agarwal for driving licence and Bishambar Dayal Singhal for bio-data.
Other than the photos of army offices, a handmade map of the Southern Command and other sensitive documents seized from Agarwal, the police said in court that Brijeshkumar Singh had also given Agarwal a 1 GB memory card that contained photos of the army's Southern Command that was yet to be seized.
Mahatekar said, "The police want time to seize the memory card and to find out about the person whom Agarwal was to hand over these sensitive documents on the day he was arrested."
Mahatekar also said that the Cyber Crime Branch's report on Agarwal's five e-mail addresses was awaited.
"During Brijeshkumar's interrogation on Saturday and Sunday with the consent of the GOC-in-C, Southern Command, he admitted that he was in touch with some people in Pakistan," Mahatekar said. "He stated that he had first met Agarwal on the Nizamuddin-Goa Express, after which they stayed in touch."
The police remand application stated that call details of Agarwal's mobile number had been received and were being analysed.u00a0
The police also seized three used SIM cards, now deactivated, of Vodafone, Airtel and Docomo. The police said they needed to get call details of these SIM cards and analyse them.
