Mangalore, February 7: As yet another step in strengthening bilateral ties with the Zionist regime, India has decided to deport an Israeli spy couple without any legal action against them, keeping aside the interest of national security.
The charge against the spy couple, who landed in Kochi, the major port city of the nearby state of Kerala on March 3, 2010 has already been reduced from “espionage activities” to “suspicious activities".
The couple - Shneor Zalman and Yaffa Shenoi had come on a multiple-entry visa and rented a house on Rose Street, Fort Kochi, for Rs 50,000 per month, far higher than the market rate.
According to highly placed sources, Central intelligence got an alert about a covert operation being carried out by Mossad agents after the 26/11 terror attacks in which south Mumbai's Chabad House came under attack and six Jews, including a Rabbi and his pregnant wife, were killed. “A communication was sent to all states and it was our wing in Kerala that traced this couple at Fort Kochi," an intelligence officer said.
Indian intelligence officials have successfully traced the couple's financial transactions. Preliminary investigations suggest similar Israelis are camping in various parts of the country.
According to sources, instead of stringent actions, the deportation order was slapped on Zalman and Shenoi last Monday following a high level communication between the two nations.
Prior to this, undercover Kerala Police officers tracked the spy couple for a year, questioned them and filed a report to Ernakulam collector P I Sheik Pareeth.
In their report, the Kerala state intelligence department said a group of people turned up at the couple's rented house regularly and held meetings.
"These meetings lasted for hours in the night. They were under close surveillance", it said.
Shneor Zalman, born on September 2, 1984, and Yaffa Shenoi, born on January 27, 1988, entered the country on multiple-entry visas (one of them being AP 2569691). While Zalman's passport number is 13143659, Shenoi's is 11665711.
Fort Kochi is a major hub for foreign tourists next to the neighbourhood of Mattancherry, famous for its Jew Town. This is the historical part of town where Jews set up their first trading outpost centuries ago and built the country's oldest synagogue in 1568.
Intelligence sources have confirmed that the couple has been in the country from March 3, 2010. When their visas expired on March 3, 2011, they had gone out and returned on April 1, 2011 on a new visa.
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