The Baleswar Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM) Court on Tuesday granted the State Crime Branch (CB) to take Ishwar Chandra Behera, the contractual videographer in the Interim Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur who has been arrested on the charges of spying for Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, till February 6. Earlier in the day, CB ADG Bijay Kumar Sharma had said in Cuttack that the CB would seek to take Iswar on fresh remand for four more days.
Behera was taken from Cuttack and produced at the SDJM court in Baleswar on Tuesday after completion of his six-day remand. The Crime Branch had taken over the case on January 29 and brought Behera to Cuttack for interrogation the next day. Baleswar police had arrested Behera, a native of Kantipur in Mayurbhanj, on January 23 basing on intelligence input.