GURDASPUR: Two men were held for allegedly live-streaming the inside of strategically significant Tibri military station, close to the India-Pakistan international border in Gurdaspur district . They were making videos of the cantonment by mounting a camera on a tricyle used to sell ice-cream, which got Army security officials suspicious about a possible “spying network”.

However, police have dismissed the incident.

Amrit Singh, 29, of Gurdaspur, and Aman Kumar, 24, of Hoshiarpur , were held by Army officials on Tuesday on charges of live-streaming, recording and cloud storage of videos of one of the most sensitive military stations.

The manager of a restaurant inside the military station, Amrit, had employed Aman as a mobile ice-cream vendor.

“A CCTV camera was installed on the ice-cream vending cart on which Aman would make rounds of the residential and administrative blocks of the military station. The videos captured on the CCTV were being live-st-reamed on the mobile phone of Amrit,” the police said.

However, Gurdaspur SSP Swarandeep Singh said that Tibri military station was a large cantonment and, being new, Aman had earlier gotten lost a couple of times so a CCTV camera was installed on the rickshaw to trace him which aroused the suspicion of Army personnel.

He said both of them were let off after preliminary questioning. “We are verifying the incident and will take action accordingly,” he said.

