Srinagar: A former soldier who had fought in the Kargil war in 1999 has been arrested by sleuths of Delhi Crime Branch and J&K police on charges of spying in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir.
Munawwar Ahmad Mir was arrested on Friday at Manjkote in Rajouri after his name cropped up during the investigations into the espionage case in which a Border Security Force official and a state government employee have already been arrested in Jammu and Kashmir.
Police said he was providing crucial information to Pakistani spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence or ISI and he has been booked for charges under Official Secrets Act.
Mir was an active member of the ruling Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party in Manjkote in Rajouri.
Sources say Mir has denied being part of the spy network and claimed that he is being wrongly implicated.
