Guwahati, January 10: Pakistan's intelligence agency, Inter Services Intelligence, was monitoring movement of Indian troops from the North Eastern region and North Bengal to other parts of the country in view of prevailing tension in the western sector, defence sources said on Thursday.
The ISI had planted agents in various parts of the NE region and North Bengal to monitor the movement of troops, the sources told PTI.
This was revealed during interrogation of an ISI agent Dilshad alias Raju alias Dilla of Sindh province who was arrested in Siliguri on January 4.
The ISI agent, who was well trained in espionage activities and was sent to India with a valid Pakistani passport, was instructed to “settle down in India” and send details of troop movement and other “sensitive information” to Islamabad, the sources said.
Dilshad first stayed in a hotel in Darjeeling and when he spent all his money he got in touch with his people in Pakistan who helped him get Rs 20,000, sources said.
Security forces subsequently raided the places where Dilshad stayed and recovered defence documents, maps, computer floppy with details of vital installations in the region besides, half kilogram of RDX and a grenade.
Sources did not rule out the fact that the recovery of defence documents and defence maps during the raids pointed to the possibility of infiltration of Dilshad's men into the army.
Dilshad during his stay had also collected enquiry numbers of railway stations through which armymen generally travel and telephone numbers of several army bases, particularly in Assam.
The ISI agent had reported details of at least two army special trains that carried troops to the Western sector that could have enabled the intelligence agency to blow up those trains, sources said.
In view of these revelations, security
forces have been put on alert throughout the region to prevent occurrence
of such activities, sources added.