14/08/2026
He is Rana Rauf Khalid, alias Wahab Alam, a Pakistani national arrested by the West Bengal STF.
He was trying to move towards the Bangladesh border when he was intercepted. A map and photographs of Fort William, the headquarters of the Indian Army’s Eastern Command in Kolkata, were recovered from him.
He was collecting information related to military infrastructure and movements in border areas.
After his interrogation, a man named Mohammad Ijaz was arrested from Kolkata’s Topsia area.
What is the role of Mohammad Ijaz? He is a facilitator who helped Rana Rauf Khalid by providing him with shelter and helping him obtain forged Indian identity documents.
This case is a stark reminder of the old saying: the gates of a fort are always opened from within, never from outside. An insider enemy can be a greater threat than an outsider enemy!!