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ISI spreading dragnet in Uttar Pradesh: Police
Lucknow, Dec 03: Pakistan`s Inter Service Intelligence has widened its net in Uttar Pradesh during the last year and is active in almost half of the districts in the state, senior police officials said today.
Lucknow, Dec 03: Pakistan's Inter Service Intelligence has widened its net in Uttar Pradesh during the last year and is active in almost half of the districts in the state, senior police officials said today.
There are reports of the agency being active in 34 out of 70 districts of the state as against only 22 districts just a year back, director general of police Radhey Shyam Shukla said here.
The statement comes in the backdrop of arrests of several ISI agents in the state in recent months.
The DGP refused to identify these districts for "security reasons", but a senior police official told reporters on condition of anonymity that "all the up districts bordering nepal have been declared sensitive".
The statement comes in the backdrop of arrests of several ISI agents in the state in recent months.
The DGP refused to identify these districts for "security reasons", but a senior police official told reporters on condition of anonymity that "all the up districts bordering nepal have been declared sensitive".
Few districts in central up including Kanpur, Bareilly and Moradabad have been added in this list, police sources said.
ISI has changed its operational style after the hijacking of Indian Airlines plane from Kathmandu and was now using Bangladesh border for infiltration, unlike earlier when it
used to operate through the porous Indo-Nepal border and had recruited agents, the sources said.
Intelligence agencies came to know of the new route following arrest of two ISI agents in Kanpur who revealed that their Pak-based contacts were operating through Guwahati.
Bureau Report