Kulwinder Sandhu

Tribune News Service

Moga, March 5

A 27-year-old Moga youth was taken into custody by the Army while he was found roaming near an Army camp in Kathua district of J&K last night.After preliminary investigations, the youth has been identified as Bali, a resident of Badhni Kalan town falling under the Nihalsinghwala sub-division in Moga.A senior official of the Central Intelligence Agency IB said the antecedents of the said youth were being verified by the agency.Local officials of the Punjab state intelligence (CID) also sprung into action after coming to know about the youth’s arrest by the Army.According to information, he was arrested from Ratno Chak nullah in the Tarnah sector of Hiranagar in Kathua district while he was roaming near an Army camp under suspicious circumstances.The local police at Hiranagar have also been informed about the arrest and his medical examination was conducted at the civil hospital. The doctors who attended on him reported that the youth was suffering from mental depression and was not in fully ‘conscious’ state.The arrested youth is in the custody of military intelligence and further investigations are in progress. Army officials suspect that he might have links with either terrorists or drug smugglers across the border in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir or he could be a spy working for the ISI, but the facts were yet to be ascertained, said IB sources.