Shaurya Karanbir Gurung
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, December 4
A retired Army havildar, Munawwar Ahmad Mir, was arrested today by the Delhi Police’s crime branch for allegedly being involved in an ISI-supported racket spying on the Army and Border Security Force deployments in Jammu and Kashmir.
“A team of the inter-state cell of crime branch had gone to J-K in search of other persons involved in this racket. The team arrested a retired havildar of the Indian Army, Munawwar Ahmad Mir, from Rajouri for being part of the espionage racket,” said Ravindra Yadav, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch).
Mir had joined the Army in 1995 and took retirement in 2011 after serving with the J-K Light Infantry and Rashtriya Rifles (RR), which is involved in counter-terrorism operations in the state. Mir has also served at several places across India.
The crime branch will produce him in a local court in J-K to seek his transit remand to bring him to Delhi for further interrogation.