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KANPUR: An alleged Pakistani spy, Mohd Waqas, whose 10-year jail term ended on Tuesday, was released by the district jail authorities and handed over to Local Intelligence Unit (LIU) in Kanpur. His jail term ended today (March 12), but he could not leave for his country as his legal documents were not ready. A local court had convicted and sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment in 2017.“Mohd Waqas, a Lahore resident, was lodged in the district jail after being sentenced by the Kanpur court. The LIU will hand him over to Lucknow police to complete formalities of his deportation to Pakistan Waqas had come to the city in 2005 and arrested in 2009. He will be handed over to the Lucknow police, which will take care of him till he is sent back to his native country,” said jail superintendent Ashish Tiwari.“He had gone underground after his visa and passport wwere allegedly stolen from a city hotel in 2005, but on May 27, 2009, he was arrested in Bithoor area of the city,” said a senior LIU officer.Police had then claimed that Waqas was living in Kanpur under a fake identity and was collecting and passing on confidential information about Indian military installations to the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan.Waqas was convicted by the first additional district and sessions judge Rajat Singh Jain under the charges of espionage, fabricating forged documents and criminal conspiracy and punished with 10-year rigorous imprisonment along with a fine of Rs 45,000 on April 2017.According to prosecution story, Waqas was nabbed by Special Task Force (STF) on May 25, 2009 from Bithoor, Mandhana..