By Ahmad Adil

NEW DELHI, India

Indian police have arrested five individuals in different parts of the country for alleged links to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.

Spokesmen for the police said two people had been arrested on Sunday -- one in New Delhi and another in Jammu and Kashmir -- while three others had been picked up in Kolkata.

According to police, one of the suspects had been working for the intelligence wing of India’s Border Security Force (BSF).

Police have identified those arrested in New Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir as Kafaitullah Khan and Abdul Rasheed, both residents of the disputed region.

On Monday, addressing a press conference in the capital, Indian police spokesmen alleged that the two had been working for the ISI for the last 10 years.  

"Kafaitullah was in regular touch with the ISI. The source of information for him was Rasheed, who was
working in the BSF," Ravindra Yadav, joint commissioner of the police crime division, said.

Yadav added that Khan had been arrested by Indian police at the New Delhi railway station.

"We recovered documents [in Khan’s possession] related to [Indian] national security," he said, adding that Rasheed had been picked up Sunday in the town of Rajouri in the Jammu region.

According to police, Khan traveled to Pakistan in 2013, where he was contacted by an ISI operative.

"He started providing [his ISI handlers with] information for money," said Yadav. "He was told he would be provided with assistance by their men at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi."

Police in the Indian state of West Bengal, meanwhile, said they had arrested three other men with alleged ISI links on Sunday.

Police identified the trio as Irshad Ansari; his son, Asfaq Ansari; and Mohammed Jahangir.

Akhilesh Kumar, deputy commissioner of a special task force within the Kolkata Police Department, told reporters on Sunday that the three men had all previously visited Pakistan.

"It seems they were hired by the ISI during the visit," he said.

None of the suspects have been allowed to speak to the media since their arrest, so it remains unknown whether or not they have denied or confessed to the allegations against them.

Pakistan, for its part, has yet to comment on the arrests or the allegations.

*Aamir Latif contributed to this report from Karachi