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NEW DELHI -- A dismissed Air Force official, who allegedly shared secret documents with intelligence operatives backed by Pakistan's ISI, has been arrested from Punjab by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police.
The accused, identified as Ranjith, who was a Leading Aircraft man with the Indian Air Force posted at Bhatinda, was dismissed recently after the force came across the allegations against him backed by actionable evidence put forth by security agencies, said a senior police official.
Ranjith, a native of Kerala, was arrested yesterday and brought to Delhi where he is being produced before a court on transit remand, the senior official said.
Ranjith allegedly shared secret information with operatives of an ISI-backed espionage ring through e-mails and inter-based text messaging services, said an official privy to the investigation.
He added that Ranjith was roped in into the spy ring by an unidentified woman whom he had met over a social networking site.
Ranjith's arrest is close on the hills of the cracking of an ISI-backed espionage racket by the Crime Branch in connection with which five persons -- including a serving and a former army personnel and a serving BSF personnel -- were arrested.
However, the police haven't yet been able to ascertain any specific link between Ranjith and the other racket, which were even found to have sources at the office of the Pakistan High Commission here, the official added.
Police and onlookers stand around a mangled commuter train's wagon following a series of blasts which targetted India's financial capital commuters' network in Mumbai, 11 July 2006. (Photo credit should read INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:INDRANIL MUKHERJEE via Getty Images)
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MUMBAI, INDIA: Indian policemen comb the railway tracks for clues at the Matunga bomb blast site in Mumbai, 13 July 2006. (Photo credit should read SEBASTIAN D'SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:SEBASTIAN D'SOUZA via Getty Images)
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Ramdeo Ratnu Raidu (R), a victim of the 11 July 2006, serial commuter train blasts in Mumbai, is helped by his wife to fill in personal details on a form during a memorial function in Mumbai. (Photo credit should read PAL PILLAI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:AFP via Getty Images)
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Vishakha Seksaria (L), who lost her brother Vrindesh in the 11 July 2006 serial commuter train blasts weeps at a memorial function for the blast victims in Mumbai on 11 July 2007. (Photo credit should read PAL PILLAI/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:AFP via Getty Images)
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Indian police investigating the deadly 11 July serial Mumbai train blasts enter the court building with one of two arrested brothers (in black hood) in Mumbai, 28 July 2006.(Photo credit should read SEBASTIAN D'SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:SEBASTIAN D'SOUZA via Getty Images)
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MUMBAI, INDIA: Railway officials (L) take notes from family members who lost their dear ones prior to handing over a cheque for 5 lakhs INR (10,800.00 USD) as exgratia by the railway authorities after the series of train bomb blasts that rocked India's commercial capital Mumbai, 15 July 2006. (Photo credit should read SEBASTIAN D'SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:SEBASTIAN D'SOUZA via Getty Images)
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New Delhi, INDIA: An Indian policeman watches over a display of lighted candles during an unofficial ceremony in New Delhi,18 July 2006, held to remember the victims of a series of blasts in Mumbai. (Photo credit should read Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:MANAN VATSYAYANA via Getty Images)
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MUMBAI, INDIA: Indian commandos talk as they keep guard at the Mumbai airport after security was stepped-up across the city, two days after serial blasts killed 200 people in India's financial capital, in Mumbai, 13 July 2006. (Photo credit should read SEBASTIAN D'SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:SEBASTIAN D'SOUZA via Getty Images)
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Indian workers repair the roof at the Mahim Station, two days after it was blown off in a bomb blast in Mumbai, 13 July 2006. (Photo credit should read SEBASTIAN D'SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:SEBASTIAN D'SOUZA via Getty Images)
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People look for names on a list of victims of a series of train bomb blasts at Bhabha hospital in Mumbai, 12 July 2006. (Photo credit should read PRAKASH SINGH/AFP/Getty Images) (credit:PRAKASH SINGH via Getty Images)
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