Episonage: Pakistan High Commission staffer arrested by Delhi Police

The person has been identified as  Mehmood Akhtar.

Sources told CNN-News18 that Mehmood Akhtar was under watch for a while now and was held with classified documents related to Indian defence positions.

"It was not immediately clear if Akhtar enjoyed diplomatic immunity," the news channel reported.

Pakistan’s High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit has been summoned by the MEA following the incident, media reports said.

Commandos of the Indian Army conducted surgical strikes across the Line of Control on Sept 28-29 to destroy terrorist launch pads in the Pak occupied Kashmir.

The strikes took place days after the terror attack on Uri Army camp in which 19 soldiers were killed.

Militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba has claimed responsibility for the Uri attack which left 20 Indian soldiers martyred, media reports said.

Posters announcing that the militant group will be holding last rites in absentia for one of the four terrorists who attacked Uri in Gujranwala town of Pakistan.

"Posters have appeared in Gujranwala town announcing that the Lashkar-e-Taiba will be holding last rites in absentia for one of the four terrorists who attacked the Indian Army’s 12 Brigade at Uri, killing 20 soldiers and sparking off the worst India-Pakistan crisis in years," The Indian Express reported.

India had earlier claimed that the attacks were carried out by the Pakistan-based militant group.

Pakistan,however, denied the claims.

The Indian News paper in its report claimed: "The posters name one perpetrator as Gujranwala resident Muhammad Anas, who operated under the alias Abu Siraqa."