Punjab police on Wednesday claimed to have a busted an ISI sponsored espionage ring with the arrest of four persons, two of them having terrorist background and recovery of a documents, including a diary containing Pakistan telephone numbers. A Punjab police spokesman said in Chandigarh that sensitive documents related to important Military installations, photographs, charts, movements of military units, diaries containing Pakistan telephone numbers and mobile phones and fake currency worth Rs 20,000 have been received from the possession of the arrested persons.
A case under various sections of the Official Secret Act has been registered at police station of the special narcotics cell, Amritsar following the joint operation conducted by the Amritsar special narcotics cell and the counter intelligence units of Jalandhar, Ferozepur and Patiala in Faridkot district of the state.
The arrested were identified as Naib Singh, Baldev Singh, Sukhdev Singh and Randhir Singh, all residents of different villages of Faridkot district. Naib Singh and Baldev Singh have terrorist background and several cases under TADA were registered against them, he said.