Four ISI men arrested in Punjab

Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 10:03 am

According to sources, the ISI has started recruiting soft targets from India on regular salary basis to receive information on the sensitive installations to pass them on to its operational unit to carry out subversive activities in India. Sensitive documents relating to military installations, photographs,charts, movement of military units, diaries having contact numbers in Pakistan.

It is blieved that these agents visited Pakistan , where they were contacted by ISI operatives in Gurdwara Nankana Sahib, and Gurdwara Dera Sahib , Lahore who expressed their concern towards the failed Khalistan.

Sources also say that that Khalistan Zindabad Force chief Ranjit Singh Nitta, presently in Pakistan,monitors the recruitment operation of agents from India.

Police in India’s northern Punjab state on Wednesday (March 18) claimed to bust an espionage network sponsored by Pakistan’s spy agency, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), with the arrest of four persons.

Narcotics cell of police in Amritsar city, on a tip off from a central intelligence agency, arrested the four suspected spies, all residents of different villages in neighbouring Faridkot district.

The arrested have been identified as Naib Singh, Baldev Singh, Sukhdev Singh and Randhir Singh.

Police said two out of the four suspects have a militancy background.

“Today Punjab police along with the central intelligence agency have completed an operation that was going on for last few days. We came across a spy network in which four Indian citizens were involved. For last one and a half years they were supplying information related to military and defence installations to their handlers in Pakistan,” said P. K. Rai, Senior Superintendent of Police, Narcotics Cell.

Some sensitive documents, photographs, charts, movements of military units, diaries containing Pakistan telephone numbers and fake currency worth rupees 20,000 have been recovered from the arrested persons.

(With inputs from agencies)

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Four ISI men arrested in Punjab

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