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ISI spy held with photos of military station
Perneet Singh
Tribune News Service

Bathinda, August 18
The police today claimed to have arrested an ISI agent and recovered secret information and photographs of a military station, a pistol and cartridges from him. SSP Varinder Kumar said the police received a tip-off that Mohammad Sedur Rehman, an ISI agent, was active in Bathinda cantonment. A police party launched manhunt in the military area to nab him and rounded up a man moving in a suspicious manner on the main road at Bhucho.

He identified himself as Mohammad Sedur Rehman, a resident of Mogang district in Nepal. The police also recovered a list of military station units, another list of codes, some snaps of military station, a .315 bore pistol and live cartridges from his possession. Police sources said he used to transmit clandestine information about the military area and movement of military units in a coded language and photographs through the Internet across the border.

During interrogation, he revealed that his brother Mohammad Aisur Rehman was also an ISI agent. He told that Aisur had also been to Pakistan and he used to send Pakistani girls to India via Nepal. He was arrested in the past and was lodged in Bathinda jail. He said he was persuaded by his brother to continue his work, following which he started sending maps of the cantonment area, information on the movement of military units and photographs of military area to the ISI. A case has been registered.