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ISI module: Army personnel arrested from North Bengal

| | Dec 07, 2015, at 12:35 am
Kolkata/New Delhi, Dec 6 (IBNS): The Crime Branch of Delhi Police on Sunday reportedly arrested one Indian Army personnel from Sukna area near Siliguri in Darjeeling district of West Bengal for allegedly leaking confidential information related to the Indian Army to the ISI (Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence).

According to reports, arrested suspect- Farid Khan- works in Indian Army's intelligence unit. He was allegedly working as a linkman of the ISI. Through ISI agents, posted in India, he used to traffic information to Pakistan's ISI.

"We nabbed one suspected ISI agent- Kafaitullah Khan- from Jammu and Kashmir few days earlier. After interrogating him, we got information about Indian Army personnel Farid Khan, who is involved with ISI-linked espionage racket. We have arrested him from West Bengal's Darjeeling district under the provisions of Official Secret Act," one Delhi Police Crime Branch official told IBNS.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)      

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