Spies in Hisar Cant: Not a first, 6 spies linked to Army installation

Hisar: Three men who have been detained on suspicion of spying on the Army in Hisar are yet to be booked, but there have been instances in the past where Pakistan’s espionage agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has been found trying to gather information on the Hisar Cantonment.
Between 2001 and 2006, in the aftermath of the Kargil War and the terrorist attack on Parliament, six ISI agents were found to have spied on Hisar Cantonment.In 2001, ISI agent Asghar Ali was arrested in Bikaner, Rajasthan, while trying to escape to Pakistan. His interrogation revealed that he built such a strong network in Hisar that he was able to get access to the cantonment. He had rented a house in the city’s Rishi Nagar.
Even the three men who are under detention had gotten access to the cantonment. However, as evidence against them is not “concrete”, a case is yet to be registered agains them.
Alia had even procured a ration card of Hisar and acquired a driving license made with the help of a municipal councillor. In the same year, an ISI agent named Mohammed Haider was arrested in Pakistan. His interrogation revealed that he had rented a home in Balmiki Basti, near Hisar’s Mahavir Colony, and even sent information about the Army to ISI.
Between 2005 and 2006, a man named Akhtar Ullah Munir, alias Sameer, spent about 13 months in Krishna Nagar of Hisar. After he was arrested, police claimed that he had sent reports of military cantonments in Punjab and Haryana to Pakistan.
In April 2006, Ludhiana police caught another ISI agent, Vijay, when he was white-washing a police station there. He lived in Hisar’s Sabji Mandi for about a month. Two other agents of the ISI — Jyotiprasad and Babulal — were arrested in Jalandhar on April 7, 2006. Police had found “strong evidence” of their leaking out information about Hisar Cantonment.
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Hisar: Three men from Uttar Pradesh, who had been employed as construction workers at Hisar Cantonment, were apprehended by the Army on Friday on suspicion of spying and handed over to the police on Saturday.
Officials of the police are interrogating all three as the Army found videos of the cantonment and some Pakistani numbers saved in the mobile phones of the trio. However, there is no concrete evidence of spying against them for now, said Hisar superintendent of police Shiv Charan Sharma.
The SP said the accused had also phoned on a Pakistani mobile phone number via WhatsApp, but no case had been registered against anyone so far. The suspects are aged between 22 and 34. All three While one of them is from Shamli, two other two belong to Muzaffarnagar.
A source in the police said the trio had been hired through a contractor for construction work at the cantonment. Army had gotten suspicious about the three a a few days ago and had been monitoring their activities. The trio was apprehended when they captured a parade of the Army on their mobile phone. The SP said the investigation was still on.