Bangladeshi national to 10-years imprisonment for spying

Gangtok, Dec 15 (UNI) The District and Sessions Court East and North 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 two, 2003 infront of the 17 Mountain Division Headquarter of the Army, 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.

He 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.

Roy 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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