By Bala Chauhan for DHNS

Bangalore, Jul 14: Highly placed sources in the Home Department revealed to the Deccan Herald some of the questions put to Nadeem during the test and his brain responses to them.
 
Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI or the Lashkar-e-Taiba, the terrorist outfit it trains, may have had a hand in getting Nadeem Hamid Kashmiri into HSBC.

According to reports from the brain mapping test conducted on Nadeem, who has been charged with committing Internet fraud while working at the multinational banking corporation, by the Forensic Science Laboratory, Bangalore, on July 6, his responses were positive and “high in magnitude” to target words in the test – reportedly indicative of his links with the ISI and the LeT.

Highly placed sources in the Home Department revealed to the Deccan Herald some of the questions put to Nadeem during the test and his brain responses to them.

Target queries

Among the target queries were whether Nadeem was aware that one of his co-fraudsters in the UK, Ashar, had contacts with the ISI and LeT agents and if he was helped by Pakistani intelligence agents in Bangalore to get a job at HSBC.

Some other key questions were: Was he given any information by the LeT before joining HSBC? Was he aware of any ISI activities? What were his terms of agreement with Ashar? How much money was he promised for the transfer of customer information? Were middlemen in India involved and, if so, what role did they play?

Among the general questions were whether he contacted Ashar in October 2005 before joining the bank, how much money was transferred in his friend Kashif Ahmed’s name and how much was received by his girlfriend Nikita’s mother.

“There was increased activation in his brain with regard to the target words and the responses showed a greater positive activation pattern. The responses were also repetitive and consistent and showed that he had episodic memory of the activities he participated in,” a source said.

Poylgraph tests

Even in the polygraph test that was conducted on Nadeem, the report showed he was “trying to conceal some vital information about his involvement in the fraudulent activity”.

The polygraph test involved questions on who helped him get into HSBC

and whether those people helped him forge his certificates.

Following the polygraph and brain mapping reports, the 4th Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate allowed CoD Karnataka’s request to subject Nadeem to a narco-analysis test. The test is likely to be conducted at Victoria Hospital on July 21.

Meanwhile sources in the CoD confirmed that Nadeem is a cousin of Bangalore’s underworld don Tanveer.

Inspector General of Police (Economic Offences) CoD S Mahapatra said they have shared the information of the polygraph and brain mapping tests with the Central Intelligence Bureau.

He refused to comment on the reports, however, only saying, “The truth will be revealed after the narco-analysis.”