Inter Service Intelligence agent Arun met his Pakistan counterpart

Chennai: Inter Service Intelligence’s outsourced agent from Sri Lanka, Arun Selvarajan, had met his Pakistan contact on September 3, a week before he was arrested in Chennai by NIA investigators, sources said here. This was the last time he met his contact in person. “He met the man from Pakistan at Pune and flew back to Chennai the next day,” NIA sources said. An NIA team is questioning Arun Selvarajan who was running an event management company, since Thursday after a designated court in Poonamalee gave six days custody of the suspected spy to the investigation agency.

The investigators indicated that they would be ‘interacting’ with persons with whom Arun Selvarajan was in regular touch. “Arun is co-operating well during questioning,” the official added. The probe team had seized seven mobile phones, 11 SIM cards, lap tops, and many digital dossiers from him immediately after his arrest on September 10. He was picked up by officials after they had been monitoring him for more than a month because his mobile number was in the contact list of Thameem Ansari, another suspected Pakistani spy hailing from Thanjavur and arrested two years ago in Tiruchy.

His money transactions too were under the scanner of government agencies. The NIA team that checked Arun’s smart phones found that he was in the habit of recording his conversations with people he considered important. The NIA claimed that Arun, 28, was assigned by his Pakistani handlers sitting in Colombo to collect details of the Officers training academy at St Thomas Mount, Coast Guard facility and DGP’s office near Marina beach, the NSG hub near Vandalur and the Indira Gandhi centre for atomic research in Kalpakkam. The NIA will also try to find out if Arun had any kind of links with local LTTE sympathisers and suspected LTTE supporters lodged in special camps in the state.