Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 18: After being handed over four Pakistani SIM cards and two mobile handsets by the Border Security Force (BSF), police was working on various theories including the militancy and smuggling angle but so far the involvement of local smugglers hasn’t surfaced.
Police have found vital data in all four SIM cards and two mobile handsets of Nokia and Samsung, which were yesterday seized by the BSF along the International Border (IB) at forward village of Abdullian in RS Pura sector when they were thrown at the IB by two infiltrators, who had escaped after being spotted and fired upon by the security personnel.
Official sources said the cyber experts of police were engaged in retrieving date from SIM cards—three of which belonged to Pakistan’s Warid company and one to Jazz and two mobile telephones. While some of the data was readily available in the telephones and SIM cards, some of it might have been washed away and the cyber experts were engaged in retrieving it.
Available data carried telephone numbers, some messages and other information, which was being studied, sources confirmed. The SIM card and telephone numbers have also been ascertained, they said but admitted that the data recovered so far hasn’t indicated anything about militants or narcotics smugglers.
According to sources, police today also pressed sniffer dogs into action from the houses of two former narcotics smugglers of Abdullian, who were detained yesterday, to ascertain their movement. However, the sniffer dogs didn’t move forward, which indicated that the suspected smugglers hadn’t moved towards the border or any other area on the intervening night on May 16 and 17 when the infiltration attempt either by the militants or by the narcotics smugglers took place.
Sources said the indications now were that the SIM cards and mobile handsets had to be picked up by some couriers of other areas to deliver them to either militants or narcotics smugglers to help them communicate with their Pakistani mentors.
They added that police was trying to zero in on some persons, who had to receive the consignment to reach to the accused. If the recipients of consignments are identified, it would help the cops reach to the real culprits.
As reported, the BSF had spotted two infiltrators moving towards the Indian territory from Pakistan’s forward village of Nandpur towards Abdullian in wee hours of yesterday morning and opened firing on them. The infiltrators had managed to escape leaving behind four Pakistani SIM cards and two mobile handsets, which were seized by the BSF jawans.
The BSF had later handed over the seized items to RS Pura police for further investigations.
Police have registered a case at RS Pura police station. Though some trans-border smugglers have been picked up for questioning, no formal arrest has been made so far, sources said.
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