10-23-2006, 04:49 AM
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Pioneer.com
Staff Reporter | New Delhi
An Army jawan, an ISI agent posted in Pakistan High Commission in Delhi and Army Group Insurance (AGI) Directorate personnel were arrested by Special Cell in last two days from the Capital for espionage. All of them reportedly had sensitive defence related documents with them.
Police, on his arrival from Jammu and Kashmir by a Jet Airways flight on Friday arrested Ritesh Kumar, a signalman posted in Leh. A <b>pen drive </b>containing information about troop deployments in militancy-hit Jammu and Kashmir and certain classified documents were seized from the 24-year-old soldier. "We had specific information that he was to pass over the documents to an ISI agent in Kathmandu," said Alok Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Special Cell.
Ritesh revealed he was working for the ISI since December 2005 and had handed over some documents to the agency earlier. Ritesh, a resident of Bihar, joined the Army three years ago and has been posted in Leh since then. He was booked under the Official Secrets Act and remanded to police custody for five days by a local court. <b>Ritesh is being interrogated to find out more about his links and the reach of the spying network in the country and abroad. He had received two payments from his contacts, </b>said the officer.
<b>In second incident, Anil Kumar Dubey, a havaldar with the Army Group Insurance Directorate, and Mohammad Farooq, a driver in Pakistan High Commission were arrested on Friday near Mahipal Pur chowk</b>. Anil was allegedly passing secret defence information and documents to Farooq. According to the police, Anil was exchanging information about Indian Army from last few months in lieu of money. Police added that they had no information so far about any links between Ritesh and Dubey.
The Pakistani driver, Mohammad Farooq, was detained and interrogated before being handed over to the High Commission after completing legal formalities. "He has been left because of his diplomatic immunity but it does not mean that he is not an accused. His proper medical check up and other formalities were completed before he was handed over to the High Commission. They have also assured us of cooperation in the investigations," said a senior police officer. Delhi Police earlier this year, had unearthed a network allegedly involved in leaking sensitive information from the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) to a US diplomat. Police have arrested a former RAW official and a systems analyst at the NSCS among others on charges of spying.
Meanwhile, army has also launched a separate investigation to find out if the arrested Armyman on the charge of spying has bigger ramification for the force. "We have launched our own investigations whether the two non-commissioned officers nabbed over the last two days were working on their own or they were a part of a bigger network," said a high-level Army source
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Why I am thinking this is a ploy just to catch Paki Embassy staff?
Pioneer.com
Staff Reporter | New Delhi
An Army jawan, an ISI agent posted in Pakistan High Commission in Delhi and Army Group Insurance (AGI) Directorate personnel were arrested by Special Cell in last two days from the Capital for espionage. All of them reportedly had sensitive defence related documents with them.
Police, on his arrival from Jammu and Kashmir by a Jet Airways flight on Friday arrested Ritesh Kumar, a signalman posted in Leh. A <b>pen drive </b>containing information about troop deployments in militancy-hit Jammu and Kashmir and certain classified documents were seized from the 24-year-old soldier. "We had specific information that he was to pass over the documents to an ISI agent in Kathmandu," said Alok Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Special Cell.
Ritesh revealed he was working for the ISI since December 2005 and had handed over some documents to the agency earlier. Ritesh, a resident of Bihar, joined the Army three years ago and has been posted in Leh since then. He was booked under the Official Secrets Act and remanded to police custody for five days by a local court. <b>Ritesh is being interrogated to find out more about his links and the reach of the spying network in the country and abroad. He had received two payments from his contacts, </b>said the officer.
<b>In second incident, Anil Kumar Dubey, a havaldar with the Army Group Insurance Directorate, and Mohammad Farooq, a driver in Pakistan High Commission were arrested on Friday near Mahipal Pur chowk</b>. Anil was allegedly passing secret defence information and documents to Farooq. According to the police, Anil was exchanging information about Indian Army from last few months in lieu of money. Police added that they had no information so far about any links between Ritesh and Dubey.
The Pakistani driver, Mohammad Farooq, was detained and interrogated before being handed over to the High Commission after completing legal formalities. "He has been left because of his diplomatic immunity but it does not mean that he is not an accused. His proper medical check up and other formalities were completed before he was handed over to the High Commission. They have also assured us of cooperation in the investigations," said a senior police officer. Delhi Police earlier this year, had unearthed a network allegedly involved in leaking sensitive information from the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) to a US diplomat. Police have arrested a former RAW official and a systems analyst at the NSCS among others on charges of spying.
Meanwhile, army has also launched a separate investigation to find out if the arrested Armyman on the charge of spying has bigger ramification for the force. "We have launched our own investigations whether the two non-commissioned officers nabbed over the last two days were working on their own or they were a part of a bigger network," said a high-level Army source
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Why I am thinking this is a ploy just to catch Paki Embassy staff?