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Teenager detained in Pathankot for sharing info with Pak handlers: police

The Pathankot police said the tech-savvy minor fell into the trap of Pakistani agencies while browsing social media, and that he was in touch with them for the past year.

2 min readAmritsarUpdated: Jan 6, 2026 07:24 PM IST

The boy was detained on Monday and questioned, the police said, adding that investigations showed he had lost his father, who lived in Jammu and Kashmir, over a year ago. (Express file photo)

A 15-year-old boy has been detained in Punjab’s Pathankot district for allegedly sharing information about sensitive locations with Pakistani handlers, police Tuesday said. The teen belongs to Bari Brahmana area in Jammu and Kashmir close to Pathankot.

“Police had received information that the boy was in contact with and was providing information concerning the country’s security to Pakistan military officers, ISI and frontal organisations running terror modules in that country,” Pathankot Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Daljinder Singh Dhillon said.

The boy was detained on Monday and is being questioned, the SSP told reporters.

His mobile phone contains contact numbers of anti-national elements and terrorists based in Pakistan with the intent to spread unrest in India, officials said. Sensitive information, photos, videos, and espionage-related material concerning Indian Army locations were stored in his phone and he was reportedly roaming in Punjab’s Madhopur area after coming from Jammu and Kashmir. Accordingly, a case under various sections of the Official Secrets Act was registered.

The SSP had earlier said that the boy had lost his father over an year ago and suspected that he was murdered, and this had affected his mental state. “Police investigations did not find that the boy’s father was murdered, but the boy suspected so and it affected his psyche,” the SSP added.

The SSP said the boy browsed many social media platforms and fell into the trap of Pakistani agencies.

He had been in touch with them for the past one year.

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Pakistani agents created a clone of the boy’s mobile phone, Dhillon said, adding that the tech savvy juvenile had videographed important locations and taken information.

The SSP said there was a possibility that Pakistani agencies and handlers took the information live while the teen was recording videos of strategic places as his phone had been compromised.

He is also alleged to have been in touch with gangsters running a terror module, Dhillon said.

“Had we not detained him, in future he could have carried out any kind of activity,” he said.

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