NEW DELHI – Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) has charge sheetedPakistani Diplomat over allegations of spying and spreading terrorism inIndia.

Pakistani Diplomat Amir Zubair Siddiqui while working in Pakistan’s HighCommission in Sri Lanka as Visa Counsellor engaged people to indulge inespionage and terror activities in India, said an NIA supplementarychargesheet filed in a Chennai court in a 2014 case.

The chargesheet was filed on Thursday by Special Public Prosecutor C.S.S.Pillai before judge P. Cheenthoorpandian of the Special Court for theNational Investigation Agency (NIA) in Chennai, an official said on Friday.

Now declared a persona non grata and cited as absconding by the NIA,Siddiqui during his employment in the Pakistan High Commission in Colombofrom 2009 to 2016 plotted a terror attack along with two Chennai residents– Balasubramanian and Noorudeen, the official said quoting from thechargesheet.

Siddiqui and the two Chennai residents have also been chargesheeted in thiscase for circulating high quality counterfeit Indian currency, causingdamage to the economic security of India.

The original case was registered on April 28, 2014 by Tamil Nadu Policefollowing arrest of a Sri Lankan national Mohd. Sakir Hussain in Chennai,who had arrived in India as per the instructions from Siddiqui to carry outsubversive activities here.

Siddiqui had planned to attack the US consulate in Chennai, IsraeliConsulate in Bengaluru, Electronic City in Bangaluru, Eastern Naval Commandheadquarters in Visakhapatnam, various places of public congregations insouth India and ports in India with the help of spies, said thechargesheet.

Subsequently, a consignment of fake Indian currency with face value of Rs2.5 lakh was seized from another accused Mohammad Saleem on May 1, 2014.

The case was taken over by the NIA on June 21 on the orders of centralgovernment and a chargesheet was submitted against a Pakistani agentHussain, who was arrested by the CBI in 2013 on charges of indulging inspying activities, and one Saleem and one Sivabalan on October 23, 2014.

Apart from Hussain and Sivabalan, Siddiqui had reportedly also sent severalpersons including one Arun Selvaraj to India to carry out attacks.