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Indian HC official held

with a remote control bomb

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad police on Sunday averted a major disaster in thickly populated Raja bazar area of Rawalpindi by arresting an Indian Embassy official with a remote control device and currency notes.

According to police, the remote control is highly sensitive and could detonate any explosive device within a radius of 500 meters.

The accused, P Mosis, a clerk in Indian High Commission, was arrested while he was on his way in a taxi to deliver the material and the currency notes to someone in Rose and Jasmine Garden near Aabpara.

Islamabad police during a routine check of a cab at F-7/2, College Chowk, became suspicious over jittery behaviour of the accused.

On his body search the police recovered an envelop and a packet. The envelop contained currency notes worth Rs 5,000 and a letter written in Urdu with an instruction to deliver the money and the packet to some-one in Raja Bazar before January 26.

At the police station, the accused initially tried to hide his identity but during investigation he confessed that he is a clerk in visa section of the Indian High Commission.

P. Mosis admitted that he had delivered such material to various destinations three or four times during the past three years at the behest of some of his colleagues.

The accused, in a signed statement to the police, admitted that he was given the material by a colleague.

The accused, who was shown on the television, said that he belonged to Madras. He was on his way to deliver the material to someone, whom he claimed, he did not know when he was intercepted by the police.

Police believe that the accused was linked to incidents of bomb blast in Hyderabad and the recent incidents of eruption of devastation blazes in Murree and Peshawar.

Police has registered an FIR and is investigating.ÑAPP