Police step up efforts to nab Army man for spying

The police have step up efforts to nab a serving Army man Rajbir Singh, who is posted in Nashik, in connection with spying and cross-border drug trafficking.

Rajbir, who hails from Patti in Tarn Taran, was named in an FIR by the Amritsar rural police after his aide Amritpal Singh, a constable in the Army, was nabbed along with two other drug peddlers.

The accused had allegedly shared confidential information of the Army with Pakistan-based agencies.

The police had confiscated 500 grams of heroin along with Rs 10 lakh drug money, a cash counting machine apart from a .30 bore pistol from their possession. A car was also impounded by the police.

According to the police, the accused shared vital information, location of Army’s units with Pakistan-based ISI. The racket had been operating for the past two years.

Besides Amritpal Singh of Chamba Kalan village in Chohla Sahin in Tarn Taran, the police had arrested Mandeep Singh, alias Maddy, and Madhav Sharma of Rajasthan. They said accused Amritpal Singh remained posted at Jammu, Assam and Nasik and shared confidential information with the ISI.

The accused have been booked under the NDPS Act, Arms Act and Official Secrets Act.