Drivers swipe their licences while entering Jamnagar refineries.
Preliminary investigation by the Jamnagar police has revealed that a copy of the truck driver’s driving licence might have leaked from the oil refineries based in Jamnagar. The driving licence was used as identity proof by suspected terrorists to send emails from a cyber cafe. The police also suspect that the terrorists had used the driver’s data to do a reconnaissance of the refineries as well.
On Saturday, the central Intelligence Bureau (IB) had swooped down on the driver, Hitesh, after tracing the mail to a cyber café in Sabarkantha. Security agencies have detained Hitesh and interrogated him. During interrogation, Hitesh, a tanker driver, had told the police that he had not used the cyber café and had no idea how his driving licence was used to send mails from the café. Investigation by the Jamnagar police has revealed that data of his license might have been stolen from any of the refineries in the district. Talking to DNA, a senior IPS officer said that drivers have to swipe their driving licences while entering refineries and their data is stored at a specific place in each refinery.
"There are chances that the data of Hitesh's license was stolen from one the refineries and misused," the officer said. Hitesh's driving license was issued in 2007 from Jamnagar.
Sources in Jamnagar police said that Hitesh was not going to the refineries any more. Situated close to the Pakistan border, Jamnagar is home to important oil refineries like those of Reliance, Essar and IOC.
The police are also examining the possibility that the suspected terrorists had already visited the district. However, Subhash Trivedi, the district superintendent of police, Jamnagar, denied that any person had been detained by the police and said that all security measures had been put in place.
"We are trying to establish contact with fishermen to get more inputs on the IB alert," he told DNA. Chitranjan Singh, in-charge DGP, Gujarat, said that constant meetings and sharing of information between all the security agencies including, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Indian Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Marine Police, Central and State IBs was being done properly. As many as 50 people from across the state have been detained and are being questioned by the police.
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