Pakistani spy case hearing on December 16

KANPUR: Hearing in Munna Pakistani spy case could not take place on Tuesday and the court had fixed next date for hearing as December 16.
The special prosecution officer informed that no information had been provided by the SSP to court regarding evidence. The court had written a letter to SSP and asked him to apprise and produce the material evidence of the case.The evidence which court had asked to submit were maps and secret documents of Indian army.
According to prosecution, a Special Task Force (STF) team of Lucknow and Kotwali police here had arrested Imran alias Munna Khan on May 10, 2002 around 12.40 pm on charges of being an ISI agent.
Sleuths of STF contacted Kotwali police and both teams reached Parade and nabbed Imran alias Munna.
The prosecution had claimed that at the time of his arrest, the police party had recovered a passport, telephone diary, ration card and secret documents of Indian army including a map of Cantonment area. In the diary, there were a few numbers of Karachi in Pakistan and addresses of Dubai. During interrogation, it came to light that parents and sister of Imran were residing in Pakistan while he and his brother Rizwan were residing in Kamal Khan Ka Hata in Moolganj. He had obtained a ration card in his father's name though he was a citizen of Pakistan and got his mother and sister's name included as family members in the card.
Imran had twice visited Pakistan. First time, he stayed there for about three years and second time in 1994 and remained there for seven years. He had obtained passport twice. On both the occasions, the passport was cancelled.
In 2001, Imran got a job in Karachi and he was employed there in Loads Private limited, a radiator factory.
There he had met an ISI official. He had enticed him for spying in India in lieu of money. The ISI trained him for two-and-a-half-month and sent him back to India with a passport and a ticket via Wagha border.
Munna had also revealed that he used to send documents to Mahendra in Dubai and pass message on phone to a telephone number in Karachi. He was going to deliver a packet to a courier company at Somdutt Plaza, when he was arrested.
The high court had granted him bail on August 19, 2003. Since then, his case was being tried in Kanpur. The prosecution had charged him under Official Secret Act and Indian Passport Act, besides various Sections of IPC.