A Vodafone SIM card issued in Delhi was being used by operatives of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence to contact its agents in India. It was found active on India-Pakistan border, police said on Wednesday.
The SIM card was investigated in the backdrop of a espionage network in which five persons – including a serving and a former Indian Army personnel and a serving Border Security Force personnel – were arrested in the past one month for providing secret and confidential information to ISI.
Technical surveillance revealed that the SIM card was pre-activated on a fake ID and sold by a 28-year-old man living in outer Delhi’s Rohini Sector-5.
The accused has been identified as Ankush Khandelwal, who hails from Rajasthan’s Alwar district. He has a master’s degree in Political Science from University of Rajasthan. Police recovered 205 pre-activated SIM cards from Ankush.
“Such SIM cards pose a major threat to national security since used by criminals and persons involved in anti-national activities. One such SIM card issued in Delhi was tracked down in India-Pakistan border. It was issued on a fake ID,” said Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav.
The SIM card was used to contact a BSF constable and his cousin arrested in Jammu and Kashmir last month on charges of spying for ISI. Three other agents were nabbed in Kolkata.
Source : Deccan Herald
