India, Oct. 30 -- Mumbai police find themselves confronted with a web of lies after the arrest of a 59-year-old "dead spy" in Delhi on Tuesday. The deceit came to light when the Delhi police arrested Adil Hussaini, brother of a Mumbai-based "secret agent", who posed as a BARC scientist but is now in judicial custody.

The fake BARC scientist is Akthar Qutubuddin Hussaini alias Alexander Palmer, 60, a resident of Yari Road, Versova. The prime accused in a suspected spy racket, he was arrested by the Mumbai police on October 17.

Hussaini had been using forged identity cards of India's premier nuclear facility, the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). Police said two fake identity cards were recovered from him, once bearing the alias "Alex...