Iswar Chandra Behera, who has been arrested for spying for a Pakistan intelligence agency ISI, was an average student and read up to high school at his village Kantipur and at Dhabaleswar under the Baisinga police station in Mayurbhanj district.
He had passed matriculation in second division before completing Intermediate in Arts from the Baisinga college and Bachelor in Arts from the Remuna college in Baleswar district, said family sources.
Ishwar hadn’t received any professional training for photography. The entire village said his behaviour was just normal and there was no criminal antecedent.
His father Nilakantha Behera (75) is a retired peon of an ME school and mother Suka (62) a housewife. Nilakantha has about eight acres of agriculture land, besides the homestead land.
Ishwar’s younger brother Harish Chandra is a mason.