Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 06:
The SIM card of a Pakistani mobile company was allegedly seized by security agencies from the brother of a senior KAS officer at Chakan Da Bagh checking point in Poonch over a month back, but police are yet to make any headway in the case.
Though Deputy Commissioner Kuldip Khajuria and SSP, Poonch, Manmohan Singh confirmed that a cross-border passenger had walked into the Indian territory with a Pakistani SIM after a stay at his uncle's house in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK),
both expressed their ignorance about his relation with a senior KAS officer.
Official sources, however, said the man, who had walked into Poonch from Chakan Da Bagh with a Pak SIM in his cell phone, was brother of an Additional Deputy Commissioner.
The man, whom SSP identified as Qurban Hussain Shah of Surankote, Poonch, had gone to PoK over a month or so back in the cross-border bus service from Chakan Da Bagh crossing point to meet his uncle.
However, when he came back, he was allegedly found in possession of a Pak SIM. Sources said when security agencies recovered the SIM from him during his frisking and checking of his luggage at Chakan Da Bagh, he was taken into custody but was set free later. The SIM was, however, seized.
The SSP said Shah had told police that the SIM was given to him by someone in PoK and he had brought it to this side of the Line of Control (LoC) by mistake.
Sources, however, said DSP, Surankote, Parpreet Singh, who was deputed to probe into the alleged use of Pak SIM by Shah, had been asked to go slow in the case.
Sources said even if Shah had brought the Pak SIM by mistake, he ought to have been put to sustained questioning, which was not done in this case. He was not detained at all, the sources added.
Had he been an ordinary citizen, he would not have been set free like this, the sources added.
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