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The telephone calls were made in two days when the Desai was staying with the ex-serviceman Shailesh Jadhav at Kenjale village in Satara district after escaping from the custody of Pune police on January 23.
The police had nabbed Jadhav at Pune railway station on February 15 for his alleged links with the ISI. “Desai was active after being released from the Yerawada Jail. He had provided vital information to the ISI officers in Pakistan,” said police inspector Bhanupratap Barge of crime branch, who is investigating the case. After fleeing from the Sahkarnagar police station, Desai was planning to leave India via Bangladesh and then move to his native place in Karachi in Pakistan.
He was in regular contact with Jadhav and an ISI officer whom the police identified as Tayyab through phone calls. Police located his position in Kolkatta by intercepting these phone calls. The Kolkatta police nabbed Desai on February 16 and brought him to Pune on February 28. The Pune police then booked Desai and Tayyab in a fresh case under the Official Secrets Act (OSA), 1923.
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