Amritsar: A man said to be allegedly working for Pakistan Intelligence agency as a spy was held in Amritsar, Punjab on Thursday by the by the State Special Operations Cell (SSOC) and Military Intelligence, the Punjab Police said.
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Ravi Kumar, who was arrested by inspector Gurinderpal Singh from the Chatiwind Police Station, Amritsar. There were a lot of things and information seized from Kumar, according to Punjab Police- Photographs of vital installations, hand-made maps of restricted areas, photocopies of restricted training manuals of the Army and information regarding Army attack formations.
The preliminary questioning of Kumar revealed that he was recruited by an official of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) through Facebook about seven months ago. He gave them information with regard to the movement of “Army units, construction of new bunkers on the Indian side of the border, photographs of Army vehicles and their formation signs, exercises and training and activity/construction”, the release read.
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He has been booked under the Official Secret’s Act and Section-120 B of the IPC. The reports say that he was sponsored by the ISI handlers to visit Dubai from February 20 to 24 where he was trained for his tasks.