An Army jawan arrested for his links with the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was in constant touch with Pakistani authorities, the police told the local court here on Tuesday. Brijesh Kumar Singh, 26, was remanded in police custody for 14 days.
Singh has been charged under the Official Secrets Act after he was found providing vital information to Vishambhar Tarachand Agarwal (24), who was arrested by the Crime Branch on February 2 for collecting information from Singh and passing it on to the ISI. The police claim that at the time of the arrest “objectionable material” that included a hand-drawn map of the Southern Command, the Army Headquarters in Pune with several photos and details of the buildings that were found with Agarwal, were provided to Agarwal by Singh.
Phone numbers of senior officials at the Southern Command were also supposed to have been passed on by the accused.
A CD, the contents of which were not known, was also recovered, Pune Police Commissioner Meeran Borwankar had said.
“Singh was in constant touch with persons in Pakistan. Now we are probing his links further,” public prosecutor Shilpa Mahatekar told Judicial Magistrate First Class (JFMC) R.L. Wankhede.
The Southern Command had investigated the matter independently and after five days of Agarwal's arrest, handed over Singh to the local police. The court has extended Agarwal's police custody till February 11.
