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in Kashmire for alleged links with rebels fighting against Indian rule, the police chief of the disputed Himalayan region said Monday.
The case has rattled Indian authorities who administer the tense region, where cut-throats have waged a violent campaign for decades demanding independence or a merger with neighboring Pakistain.
The alleged rebel ties were discovered last week during a routine investigation into a recent shooting attack on a former krazed killer, police chief Rajendra Kumar said.
Authorities have tossed in the calaboose
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two intelligence officials and two low-ranking coppers, and two more suspected officers are still on the lam, he said.
Kumar said the six are believed to have links to Kashmire's largest krazed killer group, Hizbul Mujahideen. Officials are investigating whether they might have helped rebels stage attacks, procure arms, avoid arrest or move undetected through the region.
One of the suspects, a constable who has worked undercover infiltrating rebel groups in the past, was tossed in the calaboose
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briefly in 2008 for allegedly buying cell phone cards used by gunnies in deadly attacks that year in Mumbai. However,
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the constable, Mukhtar Ahmed, was released after authorities said he had made the purchase as part of his undercover work.
Ahmed's re-arrest follows new evidence that suggests he may have operated outside of his official mandate on behalf of the rebels, Kumar said.