Ferozepur August 3:
            The district police achieved a major success after it arrested a Pakistan spy, who had been running business in the highly sensitive cantonment area of this border town for the past two-and-a-half years under the name of Rakesh Kumar and sending information of vital installations to his bosses sitting across the border through emails.
The vital documents, including voter identity card, Pan Card, driving licence and matric certificate issued to him by the PSEB, were seized from him. The other things, which were seized from him included a lap top, a computer, mobile phone sets, Sim cards, pass books of five banks, where the alleged spy was having bank accounts and was carrying out transaction in lakhs every years as he had been receiving money from Dubai, which was being sent to him by a different sender every time.
Not only this, Rakesh Kumar, who entered India from Pakistan in 2007 through the Nepal border, stayed for about six months in Ludhiana and then shifted his base to Ferozepur. He also managed to make a girlfriend. The girlfriend, a divorcee woman from Faridkot, was employed in his business establishment being run under the name of Asian Herbals and has been living with him in a single story accommodation in housing board colony here.
Information gathered by revealed that Rakesh was recruited as resident agent by Pakistan’s ISI through its military intelligence wing. The family members of Rakesh, living in Pakistan, were being paid handsome money every month by the wing. S.P.S. Parmar, district police chief, while talking to media persons, said Rakesh, whose original name was Raja Ullah, son of Abdullah and resident of Chowk Azam, Lahian district of Punjab (Pakistan), was in touch with his bosses in Pakistan through emails. He had been posting all vital information on his email account.
The 23-year-old spy had managed to establish a business in herbal medicine and recruited sales agents. The spy had also been started a business of mobile recharging to make more contact with the people. He had established business in the cantonment area to develop equations with Army personnel