The Assam Police have arrested five persons from Nagaon and Morigaon district for allegedly supplying SIM cards to Pakistani agents. The Assam Police had launched a crackdown post receiving an intelligence input and arrested the five persons, who were helping the ISI agents and supplying them SIM cards.

The arrested people have been identified as Ashiqul Islam, Bodor Uddin, Mijanur Rahman and Wahiduz Zaman, all from Nagaon, and Baharul Islam from Morigaon.

While speaking to the media, Assam police spokesperson Prasanta Bhuyan said, “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.”

“The police have launched a manhunt to nab the other five who were absconding. A mobile phone found in possession of one of the arrested having two IMEI numbers was allegedly used to make WhatsApp calls and share defence specific information with a foreign embassy,” said a police official.

The have recovered 18 mobile phones, 136 SIM cards, one fingerprint scanner, one high-tech CPU and various important documents such as birth certificates, passbooks and photographs from the possession of the arrested people and the houses of the 5 absconding accused.