Suspected spy held near military area in Ambala

CHANDIGARH: A team of Army intelligence on Thursday nabbed a person from Jandli village near military area in Ambala on suspicion of espionage. He was arrested by the intelligence unit, which constantly monitors suspicious activities around the military cantonment areas.
After nabbing the suspect around 12.30pm, he was handed over to military police, which grilled him for around three hours.According to initial investigation, military police recovered a political map of India and Haryana, a binocular, a torch and some notes on which names of various cities, including Ambala, Jaipur and Mathura, were mentioned.
Sources also added that the suspect appeared to be a person of Nepali-origin was behaving like he was speech and hearing impaired.
After interrogating the suspect for around three hours, the Army authorities handed over him to the Ambala police for further verification.
Teams of central intelligence agencies had also immediately rushed to Ambala to verify the details of the suspect.
While the Army officials preferred not to comment on the arrest, Ambala deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Jashandeep Singh, however, confirmed that a person was nabbed from a military area and investigations were being carried to verify his antecedents. A detailed medical examination of the suspect was also carried out.
Ambala military area is one of the oldest and most strategic defence establishments of the country that has always been assigned to launch offensive attacks, in case any conflict or war broke out with Pakistan.
It houses strategic airbase having fleet of fighter aircraft and the headquarters of 2 Corps or Kharga Corps, which is considered to be the most crucial of the Army's three principal 'strike' formations tasked with virtually cutting Pakistan into two during a full-fledged war. In the 1971 war, it was Kharga Corps that broke the Pakistan into two pieces and the elite Corps was also deployed somewhere in the desert sector during the Kargil conflict of 1999 and Operation Parakram in early 2002 following the attack on the Indian parliament on December 13, 2001.
Ambala has always been on the radar of foreign intelligence agencies as many persons have been arrested from here on several occasions for espionage activities.