{"id":86620,"date":"2022-05-19T17:41:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T12:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=86620"},"modified":"2022-05-19T17:41:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T12:11:18","slug":"police-in-punjab-arrest-two-isi-spies-in-amritsar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/police-in-punjab-arrest-two-isi-spies-in-amritsar\/","title":{"rendered":"Police in Punjab arrest two ISI spies in Amritsar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this week, the Punjab Police arrested two people in Amritsar for spying and sharing sensitive army information with the ISI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mohammad Shamshad of Bihar and Zafar Riaz of Kolkata have been identified as the two arrested spies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2005, Zafar married Rabia, a Pakistani national, and the couple lived in Kolkata, but in 2012, the couple settled in Lahore, where he was allegedly lured by ISI agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using encrypted apps, Zafar, according to the police, shared sensitive videos and photos of Indian Army installations with his handlers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lemonade stall near the Amritsar railway station is owned by Mohammed Shamshad, Zafar&#8217;s bihar-born associate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He knew Shamshad and had introduced him to ISI officials as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to an FIR registered at Amritsar police station, both the accused have been charged under sections 3, 4, 5 and 9 of the Official Secrets Act and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both have also admitted having shot photographs and videos of buildings, vehicles, and other structures belonging to the Army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, the Punjab Police arrested two people in Amritsar for spying and sharing sensitive army information with the ISI. Mohammad Shamshad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[216,217,40],"class_list":["post-86620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab-news","tag-amritsar","tag-isi","tag-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86622,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86620\/revisions\/86622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}