NEW DELHI, March 8: An Indian book publisher was arrested for allegedly passing on classified documents to foreign missions in New Delhi, including the Pakistan high commission, a police source said on Saturday.

He said Omkar Nath Kalia, a 63-year-old from East Punjab, was detained outside the Pakistani mission on Feb 24, weeks after India and Pakistan expelled each other’s envoys.

“Kalia was supplying sensitive documents to some embassies, including the Pakistani high commission, under the garb of delivering books,” the police source alleged.

“As a publisher, Kalia had established contacts in various (Indian) ministries. Under the garb of publishing research papers he somehow managed to get classified documents,” the official said.

He alleged that Kalia was working on instructions of Pakistan’s naval attache here, Captain Khawaja Ghazanfar Hussain, but declined to give further details about the documents involved.—AFP