Guwahati: Assam police have arrested five people from Nagaon and Morigaon districts for allegedly supplying mobile SIM cards to Pakistani agents, police said on Wednesday.
According to a police official, several mobile phones, SIM cards and other incriminating materials, including a handset used to share defence information with a foreign embassy, were seized.
Assam Police spokesperson Prasanta Bhuyan said acting on inputs from Intelligence Bureau and other sources, police arrested them during an operation carried out on Tuesday night.
“There were inputs that around 10 people from these two districts were involved in fraudulently procuring SIM cards from different service providers and supplying those to some Pakistani agents, thus working against the integrity and sovereignty of the nation,” he said.
Five of the accused were arrested on Tuesday night, he added.
Those arrested were identified as Ashiqul Islam, Bodor Uddin, Mijanur Rahman and Wahiduz Zaman, all from central Assam‘s Nagaon, and Baharul Islam from Morigaon.
Among the items recovered from the arrested people and houses of the other five absconding accused are 18 mobile phones, 136 SIM cards suspected to have been procured for fraudulent purposes, one fingerprint scanner, one high-tech CPU and some documents such as birth certificates, passbooks and photographs.
During interrogation, it was revealed that Ashiqul Islam was using a mobile handset with two IMEI numbers from which a WhatsApp call was made, sharing defence information with a foreign embassy.
“That specific mobile phone was found in his possession. Other nabbed people were also found technically involved in this connection. A thorough interrogation along with the IB officials is underway,” Bhuyan added.