The Pathankot police on Thursday arrested another Pakistani spy from Pathankot in Punjab. The accused has been identified as Sandeep who hails from Moga district of Punjab.

The accused spy was produced in the court which remanded him to a three-day police remand. He worked with Irshad Ahmed, the Pakistani spy who was arrested on January 31.

Pathankot police had earlier on Thursday morning detained a person on the grounds of suspicion near the Pathankot air base. He was detained around 7 am after he was found roaming near the IAF base.

Highly placed sources said he belongs to Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh. He is also being interrogated by the security agencies.

Irshad Ahmed, 29, is educated up to plus two. He was working as a labourer for a contractor which was laying cable outside Mamoon Cantt, Pathankot. He was arrested on the basis of a phone call made from Pakistan. The agencies are still probing who the handlers of Irshad were and whether they had paid him money for supplying sensitive information.

Highly placed sources said NIA has prepared a list of 250 persons who had temporary access to visit the Pathankot airbase and working inside the base. The development comes after the arrest of Irshad Ahmed. NIA is verifying the antecedents of the persons listed whether they belong to Jammu and Kashmir.

Sources say NIA and police is questioning the listed persons at their homes to find out whether the details given by them to the authorities were correct.

Pathankot air base was attacked by Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists on January 2.

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