An ex servicemen caught spying for Pak

AMRITSAR :The State Special Operations Cell (SSOC) of Intelligence Wing have arrested an ex-servicemen spying for Pakistan and recovered sensitive material including photographs of vital installations , movement of army vehicles, handmade maps of restricted areas, photocopies of restricted training manuals of army and information regarding army’s attacking formation from his possession.
A press release issued by SSOC on Tuesday informed that the spy identified as Sukhwinder Singh is resident of Sangrur and was allegedly working for Pak’s intelligence agencies. Sukhwinder, a ex servicemen who retired from 21 Sikh Light Infantry in 2005 was presently serving as a security guard in a private warehouse in village Channo in Sangrur district. He was arrested on the specific input by a team of SSOC led by inspector Harvinderpal Singh and Inspector Balbir Singh from the area of Bhawanigarh in Sangrur. A case under section 3,4,5 & 9 Official Secrets Act, 120-B IPC have been registered at police station State Special Operations Cell , Amritsar.
The preliminary interrogation of alleged accused revealed that he was contacted and subsequently recruited by a Pakistani intelligence official using code name of ‘Sharma ji’ on monetary allurement. His Pakistani handlers had given him various tasks including to find about the army movement Nabha and Sangrur, find construction of new bunkers on Indian side of border, take photographs of army vehicles along with their formation signs and to find out about army exercise and training's in the area.