Police say the Gurugram lawyer travelled to Amritsar seven times to pick up cash allegedly sent by Pakistani handlers. Investigators found Rs 41 lakh collected and crores moved through hawala channels for anti-national activities.
A Gurugram-based lawyer, Rizwan, who was recently arrested for allegedly spying and sharing sensitive information with Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI, is now at the centre of a major hawala and espionage investigation.
According to the police, Rizwan had two bank accounts and travelled to Amritsar seven times to collect money from people working for Pakistani handlers.
His friend, Musharraf alias Parvez, also a lawyer, told the police that he became close to Rizwan during his internship at the Sohna court in 2022.
After that, Musharraf started practising at the Nuh court and Rizwan at the Gurugram court, but the two stayed in touch, handled legal matters together, and often went out socially.
Musharraf revealed that he and Rizwan travelled to Amritsar in July in his car. He said that they even went to the Golden Temple, where Rizwan received a bag of money from unknown men riding a two-wheeler. Musharraf told police that he could not identify them.
On their way back to Nuh, the two met with an accident in Amritsar and had to leave the car behind and return home by train.
He also told investigators that they returned to Amritsar on August 1 to retrieve the damaged car. They stayed at a hotel that night, but Rizwan reportedly stepped out late at night saying
“he would bring money.”
During interrogation, Rizwan admitted that he had gone to Amritsar seven times, each time collecting cash from people travelling in a Scorpio or a Skoda. According to officials, he confessed to collecting ₹41 lakh in cash, which he later gave to a man named Ajay Arora.
Investigators discovered that Rizwan had two bank accounts — one at Punjab National Bank in Tauru and another at IndusInd Bank in Sohna. Police said the Punjab National Bank account was closed a few months ago due to exceeding the limit, adding that
“this shows that crores of rupees in hawala funds were deposited into his account from Pakistani handlers, a large portion of which was used to strengthen the terrorist network in Punjab.”
Musharraf told the police that
“he is not aware of the exact amount of funds deposited in Rizwan’s accounts.”
Officials also said that they found
“suspicious transactions on Rizwan’s laptop and phone.”
Before Rizwan’s arrest, the two lawyers had spoken over the phone. Musharraf was detained briefly by the Nuh police on the same day, but he was released four days later after agencies confirmed that
“they did not find any evidence linked to him.”
The Nuh Special Investigation Team (SIT), which is probing the Pakistani espionage network, has so far arrested three more men from Amritsar — Sandeep Singh alias Gagan, Amandeep Singh, and Jaskaran Singh.
According to the police, they were responsible for transferring crores of rupees sent by Pakistani handlers to Rizwan through hawala routes and for funding anti-national activities in Punjab.
Multiple police teams from Nuh are now conducting raids across Punjab as the investigation deepens and more links to the cross-border espionage and terror funding network emerge.
