India, Oct. 31 -- A former Indian Army employee based in Punjab was arrested from Alipurduar district in north Bengal on Friday on charges of working for Pakistan's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), local police officers and lawyers aware of the matter said.

The suspect, a resident of Rasulpur village in Punjab's Tarn Taran district, is a former Lance Naik. He was arrested by a Punjab police team from Alipurduar's Hasimara near the India-Bhutan border, where the Indian Army has a cantonment. The Hasimara police assisted the Punjab team.

He is suspected to have worked with an associate who is at large.

Additional public prosecutor Soumitra Sinha Sarkar, who represented the state in court when the suspect was produced, s...