NIA will share the info with Sri Lankan authorities
He was accused of having entered India with a mission to carry out reconnaissance of the US consulate in Chennai and the Israeli consulate in Bengaluru. (Photo: DC)
New Delhi: Leveraging the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) signed with Sri Lanka in 2010, India will be sharing information with the southern neighbour about an official working with the Pakistan high commission in Colombo allegedly playing a key role in planning terror strikes in the southern part of the country.
The information will be shared with the Sri Lankan authorities by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) under MLAT, signed between the two countries in 2010, official sources said.
NIA had last month taken over the case which was earlier registered by the Tamil Nadu police in which Sri Lanka national Sakir Hussian was arrested on a tip-off from the Intelligence Bureau (IB). He was accused of having entered India with a mission to carry out reconnaissance of the US consulate in Chennai and the Israeli consulate in Bengaluru.
The information under MLAT, which has been cleared for sending to Colombo through diplomatic channels, names Amir Zubair Siddiqui, consular (visa) in the Pakistani mission in Sri Lanka, as the main conspirator involved in a conspiracy with some Lankan nationals for carrying out terror attacks on the two consulates, the sources said.
Repeated attempts to obtain comments from the Pakistani high commission’s visa and information sections failed as there was no reply.
( Source : dc correspondent )
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