Maps of Army found at photocopy shop, FIR lodged

BAREILLY: Three days after some confidential documents allegedly related to a regiment of the Indian Army were recovered from a photocopy shop in Cantonment area of Bareilly, an FIR was registered against three persons in Cantonment police station on Tuesday.

“The FIR was registered against one Krishna Agarwal, owner of the photocopy shop where the documents were recovered and two others,” said Rohit Singh Sajwan, SP, Bareilly.

The accused were charged under relevant sections of Official Secret Act on the complaint of one Prabhat Kumar Shahi, a non commissioned officer (NCO) in the army.

ACCORDING TO MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SOURCES, INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE MAP HAS NO DIRECT IMPLICATIONS FOR ARMY, BUT THE MATTER IS BEING TAKEN WITH UTMOST SERIOUSNESS

According to the complaint, ‘Maps showing confidential information of Army’ were recovered from the photocopy shop in Cantt area on Friday.

According to the shop owner, the maps were brought by two men who asked for copies of the same.

The men left the shop without taking the maps and did not return, he said.

Local intelligence units and military intelligence personnel tried to trace the two men, but had failed so far. The men, according to the shop owner, ‘were in plain clothes but appeared to be army men.”

Initially, police teams tried to identify the men by using the CCTV cameras of the shop and in the area. The CCTV of the shop was not working and the teams failed to locate the suspected men in the footage of the CCTV cameras in the area.

According to military Intelligence sources, “The information given in the map has no direct implications for Army, but the matter is being taken with utmost seriousness.”

The matter was being investigated by a team of cantonment police station.