Bangladeshi national gets 10-years imprisonment for spying

Gangtok, Dec 15 (UNI) A local court has sentenced a Bangladeshi national to ten years' simple imprisonment for espionage.

Session judge S W Lepcha ordered Dillip Kumar Roy, an agent of Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan, to ten years imprisonment in a judgement recently.

Roy (40) was arrested by the Sikkim Police on August 2, 2003 infront of the 17 Mountain Division Army Headquarter, while collecting informations about army establishments and their movement.

A number of incriminating documents regarding the army estabishments and their movements in Sikkim, Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Binaguri and Siliguri were recovered from his possession then.

Roy was charge-sheeted on November 21, 2003 under the official Secret Act 1923 for obtaining, recording and communiating information sensitive to national interest and security.

He is now in Rongyek state jail since his arrest.

A retired Havildar of the Bangladesh Army, Roy was recruited by the ISI in Bangladesh after his retirement.

He had visited Sikkim twice before he was arrested by the Police.

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