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KURSEONG: Darjeeling police on Sunday arrested four ISI operatives who had been siphoning information from the Sukna cantonment for the past five years.
One of them is a sacked Army driver and another a Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leader. Three others, including an army clerk, have been detained for interrogation.
Sunday's breakthrough — one of the biggest busts of an ISI module — followed from the arrest of Army clerk B K Sinha in Jaipur on Wednesday.
Sinha has confessed that he started spying for Pakistan after coming in contact with an Army officer during his posting in Sukna, the headquarters of the XXXIII Corps. Smuggler-turned-Morcha leader Mesha Souria, 54, was the ringleader of the operation, say police.
Darjeeling SP Kunal Agarwal said the Military Intelligence is interrogating the four suspected spies.
The first to be arrested on a tip-off from the Jaipur police on Sunday was 54-year-old Maghan Bahadur Singh, dismissed from the Army in 2003 after being accused in a murder and a series of vehicle thefts. He was arrested from Garidhura in Kurseong sub-division. An Uttar Pradesh native, he had worked as an Army driver in Sukna.
Minutes after Maghan's arrest, Souria was nabbed from the Panighata tea estate. Police say he was the link between Sinha and Maghan and was Sinha's pointsman when he was posted in Sukna from 2000 to 2011.
Maghan's interrogation led police to two alleged linkmen — Dhan Bahadur Pradhan of Panighata Bazar and Gopal Khati of Naxalbari. Late at night, police found Pradhan's passport and realized he had been to Afghanistan — a discovery that transformed the magnitude of the operation.
"It appears to be a well-entrenched racket. We have informed the National Investigation Agency and Jaipur police," said IGP North Bengal Anuj Sharma.
The four operatives targeted the XXXIII Corps and 24 Air Force Provost unit and got Rs 25,000 for every piece of information they "sold" to ISI, say police.
The four operatives earned Rs 25,000 for every piece of information they "sold" to their ISI
Four ISI agents held near Army base in Sukna - The Times of India
One of them is a sacked Army driver and another a Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leader. Three others, including an army clerk, have been detained for interrogation.
Sunday's breakthrough — one of the biggest busts of an ISI module — followed from the arrest of Army clerk B K Sinha in Jaipur on Wednesday.
Sinha has confessed that he started spying for Pakistan after coming in contact with an Army officer during his posting in Sukna, the headquarters of the XXXIII Corps. Smuggler-turned-Morcha leader Mesha Souria, 54, was the ringleader of the operation, say police.
Darjeeling SP Kunal Agarwal said the Military Intelligence is interrogating the four suspected spies.
The first to be arrested on a tip-off from the Jaipur police on Sunday was 54-year-old Maghan Bahadur Singh, dismissed from the Army in 2003 after being accused in a murder and a series of vehicle thefts. He was arrested from Garidhura in Kurseong sub-division. An Uttar Pradesh native, he had worked as an Army driver in Sukna.
Minutes after Maghan's arrest, Souria was nabbed from the Panighata tea estate. Police say he was the link between Sinha and Maghan and was Sinha's pointsman when he was posted in Sukna from 2000 to 2011.
Maghan's interrogation led police to two alleged linkmen — Dhan Bahadur Pradhan of Panighata Bazar and Gopal Khati of Naxalbari. Late at night, police found Pradhan's passport and realized he had been to Afghanistan — a discovery that transformed the magnitude of the operation.
"It appears to be a well-entrenched racket. We have informed the National Investigation Agency and Jaipur police," said IGP North Bengal Anuj Sharma.
The four operatives targeted the XXXIII Corps and 24 Air Force Provost unit and got Rs 25,000 for every piece of information they "sold" to ISI, say police.
The four operatives earned Rs 25,000 for every piece of information they "sold" to their ISI
Four ISI agents held near Army base in Sukna - The Times of India
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