Fakir gave Pak info on ‘Strike Corps’: DCB

On the basis of information provided by Fakir, the DCB had called Aslam Pinjara on his mobile phone in Pakistan. Aslam, who had allegedly trained Fakir in spying, told the Gujarat police that he had been falsely implicated in the case and that he will come to Gujarat to prove his innocence.The two alleged ISI agents arrested recently by the Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) have given more details of what they had passed on to the Pakistani intelligence agency. If sources in the DCB are to be believed, the agents had passed on important information about the ‘Strike Corps’ of the Indian Army based in Ambala, Punjab. This has shocked even the army intelligence, sources in the DCB claimed.The sources said that Sirajuddin Fakir, one of the two ISI agents arrested by DCB sleuths, had revealed that he had passed on information related to the deployment and strategy of the Strike Corps.The Strike Corps is meant to work as a support system for the Indian army in the eventuality of a war, the sources said. “Fakir had passed on important information related to the Corps’ strategy by email,” a source said.The police had traced the email and had found that it was sent to Tahir – the key ISI planner based in Pakistan. The police had found that the email was sent three months back from Ahmedabad. The sources further said that the police are yet to know the exact details of the email and decode the language used in it.The Strike Corps, according to sources, strikes before a regiment attacks the enemy. “It has its own armor, mechanized system, infantry etc,” a source said. During a war, the role of the Strike Corps is to support a regiment by carrying out various security operations such as checking bridges for mines.Fakir, along with Mohammad Ayub Shaikh, was arrested by the DCB on October 14, 2012 on suspicion of spying for the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI. They were suspected of spying on Indian army establishments in Ahmedabad and Bhuj.