Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said the state government may seek the help of an agency like Interpol to probe the anti-India agenda of Pakistani national Ali Tauqeer Sheikh.
Sarma has escalated his offensive against his former colleague, Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi, alleging that his British wife, who retained UK citizenship for 12 years, has links with Pakistani national Ali Tauqeer Sheikh and an organisation tied to Pakistan’s ISI.
Sarma said the SIT obtained substantial preliminary information about the Pakistani national.
“He visited India along with many people from Pakistan. Even a person in the stature of Pakistan’s attorney general also came to India. They stayed in smaller hotels to avoid public glare. The visits continued until the Covid pandemic,” the Assam CM said.
“It is a sensitive matter. I have apprised the Union home minister (Amit Shah) about the developments in the case. The SIT is probing the case but it can do so up to a certain level. At some stage, we will have to take the help of an agency like the Interpol,” Sarma said.
The chief minister said, “The entire probe is at an initial stage now and the government will take it forward as far as possible in the coming days.”
He said Sheikh, who is from Pakistan’s establishment, came to India 18-20 times, tweeted on Assam and gave comments.
“He was in touch with Assamese people. We have come to know that an Assamese woman and her husband, who works at the JNU, were in touch with this person,” Sarma said.
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“The investigation is not centred around an individual. The influence of Pakistan or its ISI has been seen in India. We will need two to three months to divulge more on it,” he added.
Notably, the state police on February 17 formed a special investigation team (SIT) to investigate a case against the Pakistani national over his social media comments on Assam and India’s internal affairs.
