Bhubaneswar: Amid ongoing questioning of Kashmiri conman Sayed Ishaan Bukhari in police custody, the Special Task Force (STF) of the Odisha Crime Branch has accessed his call detail records (CDR) report.
According to sources, Bukhari, who was arrested from his rented house at Neulapur in Jajpur district on December 15, had chatted with several people on WhatsApp. Some of his deleted voice messages have also been retrieved.
Following his arrest, the STF had seized four phones and two other broken phones and those were sent to the cyber forensic laboratory for examination. Telecom companies were also asked to provide his call detail records for five SIM cards.
The ongoing investigation also revealed that he was an agent of a Chinese dating app and transacted money from nine bank accounts. He also used to borrow money from four wives, including the one at Solapur, who is said to be a lecturer. He also duped people of lakhs of rupees by identifying himself as an official in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO).
It has also come to the fore that Bukhari, who flunked Class XII, is proficient in six languages. A police team from Kashmir is also likely to arrive in Odisha to interrogate him, sources added.
Bukhari is currently being grilled by officers of Intelligence Bureau (IB) over his link with suspected ISI agent Mufti Tariq Masood. Punjab Police are also verifying his suspected link with the drug mafia as his uncle was arrested for smuggling 3 kg heroin a few years ago.
Bukhari, a native of Handwara in J&K’s Kupwara district, was staying in Jajpur since 2018 after marrying a woman, a teacher by profession, whom he met on a social networking site, and their daughter. Residents of Neulapur were of the impression that he was a doctor in the Indian Army currently posted in Hyderabad.
During the raid, at least half a dozen fake medical degrees from different institutes in India and abroad, including Cornell University in the US, Canadian Health Services Institute and Christian Medical College in Vellore, were also recovered from his possession.
