Suspected Pak Spy Arrested In UP For Supplying Defense Info

A man who was thought to be working for Pakistan’s spy network, Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, was caught here on Sunday. An official statement said that the man gave his handlers important information about Indian military installations.

“The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) picked up Raees. He was from Gonda. “He was called to the ATS headquarters here, and when he was questioned, he admitted to spying,” Special DG (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar said in a statement.

The cops say that Raees met a man named Armaan in Mumbai. Armaan then convinced Raees to spy against India. A Pakistani citizen also told him that he would get money and a job in Dubai.

In 2022, Raees got a call on WhatsApp from a foreign number. The caller told him to get in touch with Hussain. Then, the cops said, he was asked to send pictures of India’s most important military installations. They said that Salman and another man who couldn’t be named were also involved in the crime.

A police source said that Raees got 15,000 rupees and that he was in touch with the ISI through a mobile phone number that was registered in Bangladesh.

He said that a FIR had been filed against Raees at the Lucknow ATS police station under IPC sections 121A (waging or trying to wage war) and 123 (concealing with the purpose to help a plan to wage war), as well as the Officials Secrets Act of 1923.