Punjab man arrested for spying for Pakistan's ISI | Photo Credit: PTI

Chandigarh: The Punjab police have arrested a man from Faridkot for allegedly spying for the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan. According to reports, the 28-year-old man worked as a typist in the local district courts and used to pass sensitive military information to his handlers in Pakistan via WhatsApp.

Incriminating documents have been recovered from his possession, the reports have quoted a Punjab police official as saying.

This is the second such incident this year when an Indian has been caught for spying for Pakistan spy agency ISI. Earlier in January a soldier was honey trapped and was caught passing on sensitive information to ISI.

"The man, identified as Sukhwinder Singh Sidhu, got in touch with ISI agents during his visit to the neighbouring country in 2015 and since then he's reported to have been sending information to them through WhatsApp," a police official told NDTV.

Further, the reports suggest that Sidhu was noting movements of Army and was continuously giving information regarding the location of military units and instalments to his handlers.

A case under the official secrets act has been registered against Sidhu. He was picked up yesterday by the Indian intelligence sleuths and was handed over to Punjab police today.