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Did arrested post office staff send videos to Pakistan?

Jaipur/Jaisalmer: The security agencies have recovered spy cameras from one of the post office employees arrested in connection with spying for Pakistan. The agencies are investigating if the accused went to the extent of shooting army activities and sending videos across the border. The accused were arrested on charges of sending army letters received at the post offices in Balotra and Pokhran in Jaisalmer to the ISI for monetary gains.

Intelligence department sources said that the four postal department officials based out of Pokhran and Balotra in Jaisalmer are being interrogated since their arrest on February 1. "We had recovered some spy cameras, laptops and several other gadgets. We have sent them for a forensic examination. A spy camera was recovered from the house of postal assistant Islamuddin. We are trying to figure out if videos were also sent across the border," said a police officer. Sources said that the intelligence agencies' focus is now on how Indians are being tricked into spying for Pak as in the last two months, nearly ten persons have been arrested in areas along Indo-Pak border in Rajasthan for the crime. The intelligence agencies say that these persons are first defrauded through mobile calls and emails and when they send sensitive information, the ISI starts paying these persons.

"The post master arrested in the Monday case had first received a call in which the caller identified himself as Arvind. The caller said that he was a major and some army letters were mistakenly sent to the post office. The fake major asked the post master to scan those letters and send them to an email ID for verification," said a police officer. Among those arrested in the past two months are ex-servicemen along with a district administration's gram sevak and a patwari deployed in sensitive areas.

The intelligence agencies had arrested patwari Gordhan Singh on December 27 in Pokhran area. In November, two spies were arrested, of them one was an ex-serviceman.

Jaisalmer SP Rajiv Pachar said that a large number of minority people go to Pakistan to meet their relatives. In Pakistan, the ISI forcefully, in the name of interrogation, take them to police stations and pressure Indians to spy for them. Looking at this, a strict watch is kept on people going to Pak and coming back. Complete details are being prepared of suspicious people as whom they met in Pakistan and about other activities.

Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com