Spy case: Army probe widens

Maj Gen Mehta, whose Binaguri-based division falls under 33 Corps headquartered in Siliguri, has already made initial inquiries, sources said and will shortly be making a full report on his findings to Army HQ.

The documents found in the possession of Sergeant Hanif Khan on July 13 in a Guwahati hotel by Police and Intelligence Bureau officials included feedback points on a recent exercise conducted by the 4 Corps8217; 21st Mountain Division.

Police sources had said that under interrogation, he revealed that he passed on documents that were stolen by his son from GOC 4 Corps headquarters.

While the Army has said that no sensitive documents are ever maintained on Corps headquarters computers, information received from police sources in Guwahati after a prima facie record of evidence implies that some of the documents were definitely of an operationally confidential nature.

Army chief Gen J.J. Singh, currently in Ahmednagar Maharashtra for the Mechanised Forces Conference, has made no official comment on the security breach at Tezpur, though sources said that he had spoken to top Army officials in Assam for a full update on the matter.