GUWAHATI: The Assam Police, after acting on central inputs, busted an ISI espionage ring in the state and arrested five persons in Nagaon and Morigaon districts for allegedly supplying SIM cards to Pakistani agents.
Assam Police spokesperson Prasanta Bhuyan told the media, “There were inputs that around 10 people from these two districts were involved in fraudulently procuring SIM cards from different service providers and supplying those to some Pakistani agents, thus working against the integrity and sovereignty of the nation.”
A manhunt has been launched to nab the other five who are absconding.
A mobile phone found in possession of one of the arrested having two IMEI numbers was allegedly used to make WhatsApp call and share defence information with a foreign embassy. Police said they have recovered 18 mobile phones, 136 SIM cards, one fingerprint scanner, one high-tech CPU and some documents such as birth certificates, passbooks and photographs from the house of the arrested people.
The arrested have been identified as Ashiqul Islam, Bodor Uddin, Mijanur Rahman and Wahiduz Zaman, all from Nagaon, and Baharul Islam from Morigaon.
Stay updated with the latest news on Times of India. Don't miss daily games like Crossword, Sudoku, Location Guesser and Mini Crossword. Prabin Kalita is a journalist at The Times of India and is curren...
Read MorePrabin Kalita is a journalist at The Times of India and is currently the Chief of Bureau (northeast). He has been reporting in mainstream Indian national media since 2001. He has been a field journalist reporting gamut of issues from India’s northeastern region and major developments in neighbouring countries like Myanmar, China, Bhutan and Bangladesh concerning India and northeastern region. He has been covering insurgency—internal and cross-border, politics, natural calamities, environment etc. He is a post-graduate in Geological Sciences from Gauhati University.
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