Chandigarh: A person has been arrested for passing information about important government buildings in Punjab to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence. The police gave this information on Thursday. He said that Tapinder Singh, a resident of Sector 40 here, was arrested by the State Special Operations Cell (SSOC) of the Punjab Police on Wednesday. Singh was produced before a Mohali court, which sent him to four-day police custody, a police official said. He said that he was providing information about important government buildings in Punjab to the ISI for the last four years. The official said that further investigation is on in the matter.
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Earlier on Tuesday, Gujarat Police arrested a 33-year-old man from Surat on charges of espionage and allegedly working for Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, official sources said. Deepak Kishore Bhai Salunkhe was arrested from Diamond City by crime branch officials based on information received from Pune-based Southern Army Command, he said.
The man, a resident of Surat’s Bhubaneswari Nagar, ran a shop, identified by sources as Sai Fashions. A source said, “The ISI agent is being handed over to the Special Operations Group (SOG) of the Gujarat Police for further action.”
Sources said Salunkhe was “operating as a financial module receiving/transferring money to serving officials as well as civilians (in India) in exchange for vital information”.
“He was in touch with two Pakistan-based handlers Hamid and Kashif and was in the process of compromising sensitive information with them,” the source said.