Army ‘spy’ had four bank accounts

The arrested army jawan, Bijeshkumar Singh, 26, had four bank accounts and there were voluminous transactions in all those accounts, assistant public prosecutor Shilpa Mahatekar told the court on Tuesday.

The jawan was arrested for allegedly providing sensitive information and documents relating to the Southern Command to a Nigdi-based person, Bishambhar Agarwal. The latter has already been arrested with incriminating documents.

Mahatekar also informed the court that there could be involvement of more army officials in the spy racket. “These things can be uncovered only after interrogation of the jawan,’’ she argued.

The court of judicial magistrate (first class), RL Wankhede, on Tuesday granted police custody to the army jawan till February 21.
Stating that the jawan had joined the Indian Army in 2006, Mahatekar said he was posted to many sensitive places like Leh.

“Hence, it is necessary to find out that whether he was involved in espionage even then," she said.

In court, Wankhede asked the police to produce the permission letter of his arrest from the Indian Army, which the police failed. It was rushed to court from the Bund Garden police station, after which the court proceedings began.