Sajeed Muneer has completed 12-year sentence. — ANI photo

Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), April 12On one hand Kulbhushan Jadhav and Sarabjit Singh were tormented by Pakistan on a flimsy grounds that they were Indian spies, here the Bhopal Police have been feeding and sheltering a Pakistani spy for almost a year after his release from jail.Sajeed Muneer was jailed for 12 years for espionage, but after his release Pakistan did not respond to extradition requests by the Indian government.

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By default, he became the Bhopal Police’s responsibility and the District Special Branch (DSB) has been taking care of him for 10 months now.The DSB pays for his food and other necessities.Speaking to ANI, Superintendent of Police Rajesh Bhadoria said since the time of end of his conviction every angle related to the issue is being discussed but Pakistan is delaying the process of deportation.”On June 4 last year his sentence ended. In between the deportation process, he was kept in the detention centre, as those who are not from India they are kept in that centre,” he said.The SP added that police officials are in constant contact with the Pakistan High Commission and the process of consular access, where High Commissions of both the countries did the verification of Sajeed Muneer, has been done.“The Bhopal Police arrested him in May 2004 when he was collecting some official secret material from the army regiment. That time he was impersonating himself as an Indian national. He has been current put in Shahjahanabad police station’s detention centre,” Bhadoria said.Investigations revealed that Muneer was lured by the ISI while he had gone into hiding after a murder case.He had murdered a Karachi youth to avenge his brother’s killing. — ANI