Pak spy nabbed in Jaisalmer, remanded to five-day police custody

A local court here on Wednesday remanded a suspected Pakistani Spy to the police custody. CID intelligence sleuths arrested him here yesterday after rounds of interrogation.

A CID intelligence spokesman said here that Mushtaq Ali (26) was picked up from Nachna in Jaisalmer for passing vital defence-related information to his handlers in Pakistan. After preliminary questioning in Jaisalmer, he was brought here yesterday for joint interrogation by officials of various state and central government agencies. He was arrested last evening and presented before Special Judicial Magistrate (No. 10), Disha Parihar this morning who has remanded him into 5-day police custody.

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The spokesman said that Mustaq was under our surveillance for sometime that enabled the cops to gather credible evidences and proof.

As per information obtained so far, Mushtaq was in contact with his Pakistan handlers for past two years.

He was having contact with his Pakistan based handlers, agent coordinator Khalid and trainer Nazeer Ahmed. Nazeer is his cousin who had trained him in task related activities.

Mustak set up a tea stall with the help of his handlers, along the main Nachna Road about 25 kms from the Indo Pak international border. From this tea stall, the spy monitored the activities and movement of the Army and the Border Security Force (BSF) in the area. He passed the information he gathered to Pakistani handlers in the form of videos and photos via the Google Map Cam App. This app sends data with precise location details, such as district, direction, longitude, latitude. This helps in precisely locate (& target too in war times) place or object, the spokesman added.

Mustaq is believed to have passed on vital information accross the border during the Operation Sindoor, he said.