Indian man charged with spying
2013-02-25 20:35
Jaipur - An Indian man has been arrested on charges of
spying for Islamabad on military war games staged on India's border with
Pakistan, police said on Monday.
The 35-year-old man is accused of passing on details of
the exercises held by the Indian Air Force on Friday in the western desert
state of Rajasthan, senior state police officer D S Dinkar told AFP.
Dinkar identified the man as an Indian national called
Sumaar Khan and said he was allegedly spying for Pakistan's Inter-Services
Intelligence, "passing information related to Indian defence installations
and military activities".
Police alleged the man used mobile phones and internet to
transmit information but did not say when he was arrested.
Both India's President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh attended the drill, codenamed "Iron Fist".
Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan frequently accuse
each other of spying on each other's military activities.
The two South Asian neighbours have fought three wars, two
over the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir, since their partition at
independence in 1947.
