Jammu, Jan 06 (KNO): Punjab Police have detained a 15-year old boy from Jammu and Kashmir for allegedly sharing sensitive information with handlers in Pakistan.
According to the details available with the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) the teenage boy from Bari Brahmana presently residing in bordering Sujanpur of Pathankot district in Punjab was providing information to people sitting in Pakistan.
“Police received intelligence inputs that the boy was in contact with Pak handlers and was providing information concerning the country’s security to military officers, ISI and frontal organisations running terror modules in that country,” Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Pathankot, Daljinder Singh Dhillon, told reporters here.
“His mobile phone contains contact numbers of anti-national elements and terrorists based in Pakistan with the intent to spread unrest in India,” he added.
“Sensitive information, photos, videos, and espionage-related material concerning Indian Army locations were stored in his phone and he was reportedly roaming in Punjab’s Madhopur area after coming from Jammu and Kashmir. Accordingly, a case under various sections of the Official Secrets Act stands registered,” the SSP said, adding, “The boy visited many social media platforms and fell into the trap of Pakistani agencies. He had been in touch with them for the past one year. Pakistani agents created a clone of the boy’s mobile phone, Dhillon said, adding that the tech savvy juvenile had videographed important locations and taken information.”
The SSP said there was a possibility that Pakistani agencies and handlers took the information live while the teen was recording videos of strategic places as his phone had been compromised. He is also alleged to have been in touch with gangsters running a terror module, Dhillon said. “Had we not apprehended him, he could have carried out any kind of activity,” he said—(KNO)