How India is treating this Pakistani spy

While Pakistan sentenced Indian nationals Kulbhushan Jadhav and Sarabjit Singh to death on a flimsy charge of being ‘spies’, India has been feeding and sheltering a Pakistani spy named Sajeed Muneer for almost a year after his release from jail

Muneer was jailed for 12 years for espionage. After his release, Pakistan did not respond to extradition requests by the Indian government.

By default, he became the responsibility of the Bhopal Police and the District Special Branch has been taking care of him for 10 months now.

The DSB pays for his food and other necessities.

Speaking to ANI, Superintendent of Police Rajesh Bhadoria said since the time of his conviction, every angle is being discussed related to the issue but Pakistan is delaying the process of deportation.

“On June 4 last year, his term was completed. During the deportation process, he was to be kept in detention centre as is the practice for non-Indian prisoners,” he said.

He added that police officials are in constant contact with the Pakistan embassy and the process of consular access, where embassies of both the countries did the verification of Sajeed Muneer has been done.

“The Bhopal Police arrested him in May 2004 when he was collecting some official secret material from the army regiment. That time he was impersonating himself as an Indian national. He has been current put in Shahjahanabad police station’s detention centre,” Bhadoria said.

Investigations revealed that Muneer was lured by the Inter-Services Intelligence while he was on a hideout after murdering a Karachi youth to avenge his brother’s killing.

IMAGE: Sajeed Muneer. Photograph: ANI