An agent of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has been arrested from Manipur's Chandel district and is being interrogated, commandant of the 37 BSF, D K Chakraborty said. Chakraborty told reporters that the agent, identified as Abdul Haque, who hailed from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, was picked up by BSF personnel at buyang, on way to the border town of Moreh on September 30.
Chakraborty said Haque who had come from Delhi, had told BSF personnel that he was going to meet two persons at the border town but after his search, it was found that the ISI agent had given fictitious names. The BSF commandant said Haque has been handed over to the joint interrogation cell at Kakching area in Thoubal district where he was being detained.
Chakraborty said the BSF has been deployed in the border district to check smuggling activities and joined the other forces in counter insurgency operations.
Bureau Report