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Bengal STF arrests two suspected Pakistani spies near Bangladesh border
Bengal STF arrests two suspected Pakistani spies near Bangladesh border
West Bengal Police's Special Task Force (STF) arrested two suspected Pakistani nationals near the Bangladesh border in North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday and charged them with espionage. The accused, identified as…
The Story in Brief
West Bengal Police's Special Task Force (STF) arrested two suspected Pakistani nationals near the Bangladesh border in North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday and charged them with espionage. The accused, identified as Rana Rauf Khalid alias Wahab Alam and Md Aziz (also named Muhammad Izaz), were produced before a Barasat court, which remanded them in police custody until August 26.
According to state lawyers, Khalid entered India through Nepal in 2012 and was tracking the movements of Army and railway officials. The STF alleges he has links with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence. Authorities seized forged Indian documents including Aadhaar and voter ID cards. Aziz, arrested from Kolkata's Topsia area, is suspected of providing these documents. Both men deleted some mobile data before capture.
The Indian Opinion
The Trinamool Congress versus BJP blame game over this arrest is lazy politics. The real test is whether Bengal police can turn this into a wider bust: How many more forged documents are circulating, and who issued them? The numbers that matter are not from politicians but from the STF's ongoing interrogation: How much information was already passed to Pakistan, and which railway or defence units were compromised? That will settle the question of whether this is a lone operator or a larger network.
Sources (4): hindustantimes.com, economictimes.indiatimes.com, ndtv.com, assamtribune.com
This story was synthesised by AI from the 4 sources linked above.
Updated: this story now draws on 4 sources.
