Signal of satellite phone near Pakistan border put security agencies in alert

Bhuj:

The signals of banned Thurya satellite phone were detected close to Pakistan border in Kutch district yesterday prompting security agencies and BSF to swing in to action.

However any conversation did not take place on the phone the signal of which was detected around 0544 pm last evening around 250 meters within India territory close to border pillar 1008 and 1009.

A senior official of the BSF today said that though the matter was under investigation yet so far nothing suspicious has been found.

‘During this period of winter the Pakistani rangers (equivalent to BSF jawans) do hunting in the bordering areas and sometime inadvertently come quite close to the border and during such time also their satellite phones signals are often detected like this. Though we have detected the signal yet no conversation was intercepted,’ he said.

DeshGujarat