India, June 15 -- The Bathinda police and the counter-intelligence wing busted an espionage network by arresting two Ajnala residents accused of monitoring army movements for foreign handlers.

Superintendent of police, city, Narinder Singh said on Monday that the accused, Ashok Singh and Akashdeep Singh of Sarai village in Ajnala sub division of Amritsar district, allegedly installed a solar-powered CCTV camera on a pole along the Bathinda-Fazilka stretch of national highway No. 7 to stream live video feeds to unidentified individuals in Pakistan and Canada.

A case under the Official Secrets Act and the Prevention of Public Property Act was registered on June 9 following a targeted scan of the area near a local cement factory.

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