'Pak spy was trying to get info for a 26/11 style terror strike'

Mehmood Akhtar, the Pakistan High Commission official who was caught for espionage, was trying to gather classified information on deployment of Indian security forces along the western coast, possibly to carry out a strike similar to the 2008 Mumbai terror attack

New Delhi: Mehmood Akhtar, the Pakistan High Commission official who was caught for espionage, was trying to gather classified information on deployment of Indian security forces along the western coast, possibly to carry out a strike similar to the 2008 Mumbai terror attack.

“There have been intelligence inputs Pakistan’s ISI was planning to send terrorists through the sea route to carry out a Mumbai-type terror attack in India. Akhtar's activities and his interests to gather information about the western coast buttress the intelligence inputs," a Home Ministry official said. Maulana Ramzan and Subhash Jangir were handing over information to Akhtar when they were arrested. The Pakistani official was to hand over Rs 50,000 for the information, the official said. Akhtar confessed to police about his role in the spy ring.

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