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India rejects Pak's claim that arrested ex-naval officer is 'spy'
New Delhi, Mar 26 (IBNS): India has rejected allegations that a former navy officer arrested by Pakistan is an agent of its foreign intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), media reports said.
India now wants consular access to the arrested person to "assess the truth".
"There is no proof that the retired navy officer, who owns a cargo business in Iran, was arrested in Balochistan as claimed by Pakistan," NDTV quoted sources in the government.
The government also holds that he could have been arrested after he strayed into Pakistani waters and was being wrongly charged, the sources added.
Acknowledging that the arrested Indian national in Pakistan is a former Navy officer, the Indian government on Friday said he has no link with the government.
"The individual has no link with Government since his premature retirement from Indian Navy," read a MEA statement as available with the media.
Pakistan had summoned the Indian High Commissioner over the alleged illegal entry into the country by a RAW officer and his involvement in subversive activities in Balochistan and Karachi.
" The Indian High Commissioner was summoned by the Foreign Secretary today (25th March 2016) and through a demarche conveyed our protest and deep concern on the illegal entry into Pakistan by a RAW officer and his involvement in subversive activities in Balochistan and Karachi," Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had said in a statement.
Sources told Geo News Foreign Office officials apprised Indian High Commissioner Gautam Bambawale over the arrest of RAW’s serving Indian Navy commander from Balochistan.
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