Pakistani spy supplying sensitive info to ISI for last 4 year arrested in Chandigarh

Tapinder Singh had been supplying information about important government buildings in Punjab to the ISI for the last four years.

Chandigarh: A man was arrested for allegedly supplying information about important government buildings in Punjab to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, police said on Thursday. Tapinder Singh, who lived in Sector 40 here, was arrested by the Punjab Police's State Special Operation Cell (SSOC) on Wednesday, they said. Singh was produced before a Mohali court, which remanded him to four-day police custody, a police official said. He had been supplying information about important government buildings in Punjab to the ISI for the last four years, he said. Further investigation in the matter is underway, the official said.

The sources said Salunkhe was "operating as a financial module which was receiving/transferring money to serving officials as well as civilians (in India) in lieu of crucial information.

"He was in touch with two Pakistan-based handlers, Hamid and Kashif, and was in the process of compromising sensitive information with them," the source said.