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A map of New Delhi’s Rajpath and Rashtrapati Bhavan, sketches of BSF posts on the India-Bangladesh border and notebooks with notes in Hindi, Mandarin and Bengali were reportedly recovered from an undertrial’s bag during a search in Moradabad district jail on Sunday.
The accused, Saddiq Ali, 25, a resident of West Bengal, has been in jail for the last four years in connection with a murder case. DIG, Moradabad Range, Onkar Singh said a police team was being sent to West Bengal to probe his antecedents. The UP ATS has also been alerted.
Moradabad jail superintendent B R Verma said they had also recovered two cellphone memory cards from Ali’s bag. District Magistrate Deepak Agarwal said a probe had been ordered, and the next course of action would be decided on the basis of the report.
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Central intelligence agencies arrived at Moradabad jail on Monday to interrogate Ali. According to Moradabad Additional SP Prabal Pratap Singh, Ali claimed that he had moved to Sambhal two years before he was arrested.
According to jail records, Ali and his father, Nasir Ali, moved to Sambhal a few years ago, and worked as labourers in a meat export firm. On May 10, 2011, the Sambhal police arrested Ali for allegedly killing his colleague Imran following an altercation. Imran’s brother had filed a complaint against Ali and his father. The police later dropped Nasir Ali’s name from the case on the ground that he was falsely implicated.
During interrogation, Ali reportedly said that his father had not visited him in jail or in court after he was arrested. When asked about the notes in Mandarin, Ali reportedly claimed he knew a Chinese national who taught him the language. He reportedly claimed that he had drawn the sketches of the BSF posts in his village in West Bengal, from where the BSF camps were about one kilometre away.
