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Guwahati: Police in Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday said they arrested two men hailing from Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir on charges of spying.
The two were arrested on November 22 from rented houses near the state capital Itanagar. Police said the duo were arrested
for allegedly collecting sensitive information on troop movement and maintaining covert links with Pakistan-based handlers. A hunt is on for a few more associates, a police officer said.
Police said intelligence inputs suggested that they were trying to activate "anti-national operatives" in Arunachal Pradesh, a state sharing border with Tibet.
The first accused, Nazir Ahmad Malik of Kupwara district, was arrested on November 22 from a rented house in Ganga village near Itanagar. Later, another accused, Sabbir Ahmed was arrested based on Malik's confession, police said.