Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said the Special Task Force (STF) of the state police has arrested two people, including an Indian Army veteran, in Guwahati for their alleged involvement with a Pakistan’s intelligence operative.
Police say accused were honey-trapped by Pakistani operative
Senior police officers did not respond to HT’s requests for further details of the veteran. One of the arrested was identified as Abhishek Kumar Singh (31), a Bihar resident, according to the police. Singh, a resident of Bihar’s Purba Champaran district, was apprehended from a rented house in Gandhinagar under Satgaon Police Station in Guwahati during an operation conducted by the Assam STF in the intervening night of October 3 and 4, police said.
He was allegedly passing confidential information concerning security forces to the Pakistani operative, they said. One is a retired army jawan but currently working on a contractual basis with the army,” said Sarma at a press conference, when asked about an espionage-related arrest which was shared with the media through a police statement. Assam Police said in a press statement that the operation was carried out after intelligence regarding Singh’s alleged anti-national activities. “The operation was launched on the basis of a preliminary input received from Gajraj military intelligence, Tezpur,” police said.
“Today, as per input of central agencies, the Assam Police arrested two persons.
