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The West Bengal police are investigating the claim of a man who was arrested on a charge of being a Pakistani spy that several Indian soldiers had supplied him sensitive defence information.
Ziauddin Biswas, who was arrested on Sunday from West Bengal's Murshidabad district, reportedly confessed that he had 'hired' 15 soldiers to spy on troop movements and provide information on defence installations.
Several sensitive documents, maps and photographs of vital army camps were recovered when the police raided Biswas's hideout in Murshidabad on Sunday.
Besides Biswas, police arrested his wife Ismatara Biswas and two others, Ghulam Murtaza and Ahsan Habib, on the same night on charges of spying for the Inter Services Intelligence.
Police said Biswas has admitted to being involved in spying and informed his interrogators that he used to send the reports to an ISI contact in Dhaka named Amir.
Intelligence officers are now trying to obtain the names of soldiers involved in espionage. These soldiers are believed to belong to army units posted in the border districts of Murshidabad, Nadia and Malda.
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