BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (MP ATS) has arrested eleven ISI agents from different parts of the state. It was not an unexpected operation as the preparations began more than three months ago. The accused were getting payment through internet banking.
In the month of November 12, last year, Satvinder and Dadu were arrested from RS Pura police station area of Jammu. They were involved in collecting information related to army and other security forces and were sending the information through WhatsApp to Pakistan.
During the investigations it came to fore that they were using the voice over internet calls, misleading the security agencies. These calls were coming from Pakistan and the jumping numbers were used during the calls.
A Satna district resident, Balram made payment to duos by transferring the amount in their accounts. When the ATS snooped on Balram it came to know that he is in connection with ten others in the state who were later held.
The ATS found that three telephone exchange were operating in Bhopal, Jabalpur and in Gwalior through which the calls were made to Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and other neighbouring states.
These ten arrested accused were collecting information posing themselves as army officials. When the army or the security official received the call on their cell phone, they found the calls being made by their superior officers.
The officers unwittingly gave them the correct information about the location or the desired information asked by the caller. The ATS tracked the whole network in around 100 days and finally they arrest eleven accused in the case.
Following the arrest various agencies have strengthened their security network, the Western Railway Board held meeting of all the managers and security officers in Mumbai. The RPF has issued high alert in entire western railway area, especially the rail tracks from Ratlam to Godhra is on high vigil.
The police officials will check each and every traveller with full security and will keep eye on every happening.
Recently in the state in the month of October eight SIMI activists committed jailbreak and killed one chief warder. Later they were killed on very next day, in an encounter on November 1, 2016. SIMI is having deep roots in the state, several incidents have been reported in the state since 2007.
Man held in Bhopal snooped on army, police by wireless sets
In the month of May, 2015 a self-proclaimed director of the security agency was arrested with 70 wireless sets tuned to banned frequency of army and police. The city police arrested Waqar Khan – a 43-year-old man. The accused had made several trips to Pakistan, Dubai and Nepal. Interestingly when police had came to arrest him, he came to know through the wireless set and set ablaze 13 sets after dousing petrol on them, but the police had seized the remaining handsets.
