JAIPUR: A Rajasthan state government employee and former personal assistant to a senior Congress leader was detained in Jaisalmer on suspicion of espionage for Pakistan, an official said on Thursday.
Shakur Khan was detained on Wednesday night by an intelligence department team who were acting on security-related inputs.
Khan, who works in the district employment office, was found to have phone numbers associated with Pakistan stored on his device, the official said.
"There were inputs about Shakur Khan that he could be involved in spying for Pakistan. He was on surveillance following inputs and was detained last night," the officer said.
A joint interrogation was conducted in Jaisalmer following which the team left for Jaipur with Khan.
The authorities discovered several Pakistani Phone numbers in his Phone which Khan couldn’t explain. He also confessed that he had travelled to Pakistan at least seven times in recent years.
Sakur Khan earlier worked as a personal assistant to Shale Mohammad, a former minister in the Congress government. Mohammad and Khan belong to the same village.