GHAZIABAD: Three more individuals, together with a minor, have been taken into custody for allegedly filming railway stations and govt places of work in Delhi-NCR and Mumbai and passing the “sensitive” materials to handlers primarily based in Pakistan. Police mentioned the trio have been drawn into the community by Sardar alias Jora Singh, who’s the important thing recruiter working throughout India. With the most recent police motion, the variety of suspects in custody has risen to 18, together with six minors. The accused picked up on Sunday have been recognized as Naushad Ali (20), initially from Muzaffarpur in Bihar and at present residing in Faridabad; Meera (28), from Mathura; and a 17-year-old boy. Earlier, police had arrested six individuals on March 14. Nine more have been held as cops widened the investigation. A particular investigation crew has since been shaped on the chief minister’s order. Dhawal Jaiswal, DCP (metropolis), mentioned Naushad got here in touch with Sardar by way of social media round two years in the past.A Class 5 dropout going through monetary hardship, he allegedly joined the group and went on to recruit others. “Naushad’s role was to identify and bring in young people with technical skills such as mobile repair, computer work and CCTV handling, especially from poor backgrounds, by offering them money. During investigation, we found more than 10 social media groups linked to him, each with 70 to 80 members. So far, we believe he recruited 15 people. Efforts are on to trace them,” he added. Police mentioned that Meera’s function was to deliver ladies into the community. Cops discovered more than 5 teams allegedly created by her on social media, saying she had been in contact with over 10 ladies in an try to persuade them to be part of. Piyush Kumar Singh, ADCP (crime), mentioned Meera had a felony background and was earlier concerned in arms smuggling. “Apart from recruiting people, she was also supplying weapons,” he mentioned. She was arrested by Mumbai cops in 2024 together with 4 others and more than six firearms, and once more by Delhi Police in July 2025 with six others. A senior officer mentioned Meera had separated from her husband and later married Rahul, solely to uncover that he was really Shamsul Khan, an alleged arms and faux forex trafficker from Firozabad in UP. (*3*) he added.Police had earlier recognized Naushad Ali, Sameer and Sohail as key operatives within the community. The three, together with Mehak, who was arres-ted earlier, and Meera, have been in direct contact with Sardar, whereas others allegedly acted on directions handed thro-ugh WhatsApp teams.According to police, the accused put in solar-po-wered, SIM-based standalo-ne CCTV cameras at Delhi Cantt and Sonipat railway stations and shared the dwell feed with the Pakistani num-ber. One digital camera was remo-ved from Delhi Cantt on March 14 and one other from Sonipat on March 18.
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The units have been alleged-ly mounted about 20ft excessive on platform poles to seize three to 4 platforms in addition to motion of trains. Police mentioned there was additionally a plan to set up comparable cameras at 50 more locations from Delhi to Kashmir to collect delicate navy data.“They received instruc-tions through a specific num-ber and were paid for each task. Prima facie, they were paid Rs 5,000 or more per as-signment. Chats contained photographs of several loca-tions in Delhi-NCR, though some had been deleted,” the officer mentioned.
