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ATS nabs retired armyman on spying charges

Pioneer News Service, PS

Sleuths of the Anti-Terrorist Squad(ATS) claimed to have got a major success when they nabbed a retired army personal in Jhansi whom they said to be working as an agent of Pakistani espionage agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The trap was made late on Sunday night in Jhansi.

IG (law and order) Amrendra Sengar claimed that the sleuths of the ATS acting on a tip-off nabbed the accused near an ATM in Sadar Bazar area of Jhansi when he was trying to pass on some important defense secrets to his ISI bosses in Pakistan from a cyber café,on Sunday night. The accused was taken to local police station where he revealed his identity as Retired Subedar Indrapal Kushwaha(52). Four important armydocuments , two CDs of war plan, document of GRRC orbit plan anda diary containing important telephone numbers have been seizedfrom the ISI agent.

The accused a native of Kichwali village in Tindwari police station in Banda district of UP, came in touch with the ISI when he was posted in Siliguri way back in 2011. The ISI used to deposit money in the bank account of the Army personnel for his information regularly even after his retirement on October 31,2013.