Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Dehradun on April 14, a man named Vikrant Kashyap was arrested by the Uttarakhand Special Task Force (STF) for allegedly filming sensitive locations and sharing the footage with his Pakistani handlers.
The STF, which arrested the 29-year-old from the Premnagar area under Operation Prahar, recovered an illegal .32-bore pistol, seven live cartridges, a spray paint can, and a mobile phone from him.
According to the STF's SSP Ajay Singh, the accused was found to be in contact with Pakistan-based terrorist and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agent Shahzad Bhatti, and his associate Rana.
He added that the accused had been in constant touch with with his Pakistani handlers via social media platforms such as Instagram and WhatsApp, through which videos of various sensitive locations—such as the ISBT and Uttarakhand Police HQ—were shared.
When interrogated, Kashyap said that he had first met Bhatti online after seeing the Pakistani handler's posts about avenging the singer Sidhu Moosewala, who was shot dead in 2022.
Kashyap was then lured with promises of a good amount of money and being settled in Dubai via Nepal.
(More details are awaited.)
