Fake BSF jawan arrested with SIM cards, maps

From DailyBhaskar.in
30/12/10
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat Anti-terrorist Squad (ATS) arrested one person on Tuesday and reportedly detained a few others on suspicion of spying at the headquarters of the Border Security Force (BSF) in Gandhinagar. Two SIM cards and some maps were seized from the arrested man's possession. As the phone cards were used to contact phone numbers in Jammu and Kashmir, the ATS has not ruled the possibility of a terror link in the entire episode.

Talking to mediapersons, ATS chief Ajay Tomar said that on the basis of a complaint filed by the BSF Gandhinagar, the ATS had arrested one Ravindra Babu Chaudhary from a village in Gandhinagar.

Chauhan, who belongs to Jalgaon in Maharashtra, had been living in a rented house in the Alampur village of Gandhinagar district with a fake identity card claiming that he was a BSF jawan. Besides the SIM cards, the ATS has seized some other fake identity cards from his possession. "The SIM cards were used on many phones to connect to phone numbers in Jammu and Kashmir," Tomar said.

Preliminary investigation has revealed that posing as a cook in a BSF battalion, Chaudhary was in contact with some BSF jawans and had even sold a bike to one BSF personnel. "He was trying to establish a relationship with the BSF personnel while keeping a close watch on the movement of BSF officials," a source said.
Chaudhary was nabbed on the basis of information provided by the intelligence cell of the BSF. Tomar also told mediapersons that Chaudhary had studied up to first year in college and was doing nothing for a livelihood.

"We even questioned his parents in Jalgaon who are not in a position to afford him a rented house," Tomar said. He further said that Chaudhary had hired a BSF uniform and some another uniforms from some place. He also had a fake identity card of the deputy director of the fisheries department with his original photograph on it. "He has more than two fake identity cards. We suspect he could be misusing it," Tomar said.

The ATS is also investigating the case to find out whether it had any connection with the current terror alert. "It is very difficult to say anything, but there could be some motive behind keeping fake identity cards and infiltrating a BSF camp," Tomar said. Chaudhary is currently on five days' police remand.