Arrest of Chinese spy who ran a hotel in Gurugram sparks verification drive in Gurugram

Sanjay Yadav
Gurugram, June 11

The arrest of an alleged Chinese spy by BSF in West Bengal and his disclosure of having run a hotel in Gurugram for over one and half years has brought Gurugram police under scanner.

Having drawn flak for failure of its intelligence and norms to keep a check on all guest houses, hotels and foreigners, the police have now started a verification drive.

“We have post lockdown now launched a verification drive at hotels and guest houses about people residing there or their owners. We are tracking those who have not got police verification. PG owners too have been asked to get all details of inmates and get them verified under tenant verification,” said a senior police official.

The accused identified as Han Junwei (36) is an alleged Chinese spy who was nabbed from West Bengal by BSF.

He had been running a hotel in Gurugram’s DLF phase-3 using fake Aadhar card. He was also residing in a posh area of Gurugram.

During interrogation by BSF, he revealed that he had visited India four times before. He visited Hyderabad in 2010 and also Delhi and Gurugram thrice after 2019.

He claimed to be running a hotel in Gurugram named ‘Star Spring’ in DLF phase-3 area. Some of the staffers in this hotel are from China while the rest are Indians.

The hotel owner, Jaiveer Lohia, resident of Nathupur village, also confirmed that the accused had taken his hotel on lease in October 2019.

As per the lease papers, the 10 years lease was finalized in Rs 15 lakh per month rent and Rs 5,68,000 as charged of stamp duty by Tehsil Wazirabad.

The lease was finalised between M/s Hua Tong Behtar Vishwa Technology private limited, Hyderabad and Jaiveer Lohia in which Junwei Han and Pottelli Prashant Kumar were shown directors of the firm. 

He also reportedly revealed that a few days ago his business partner was caught by ATS Lucknow which also lodged a complaint against him.

Due to the case registered against him, he did not get an Indian visa in China and he got (a) visa from Bangladesh and Nepal to come to India.

Parul Lohia, one of hotel owners, said that he was regular in rent payment and posed as he was an Indian and never gave a reason to suspect him.

“If there was anything fishy, we would have never given him our hotel,” said Lohia.

The authorities also suspect that accused may have got his fake Aadhar from Gurugram only and investigation is on.