Jammu police raids Tarun Behl’s house, office and school; recovers incriminating documents

STATE TIMES NEWS

JAMMU: Continuing investigations into the arrest of Tarun Behl, operating WhatsApp groups ‘The Sree times’ and ‘Aasman news paper,’ the Jammu police on Thursday conducted simultaneous raids at his house and office at Channi Himmat and British International School at Chowadhi and reportedly recovered some incriminating documents.

FIR 80/2024 under sections 3/5 Official Secrets Act 1923,49/353 BNSS was registered against Tarun Behl, son of Bal Krishan Behl, resident of 101, Sector-6, Channi Himmat, at Police Station Channi Himmat. Tarun Behl was earlier running a college and presently he owns a school named British International School, Chowadhi. Jammu SSP Vinod Kumar said, “Tarun Behl has been arrested for offences which are related to extracting sensitive/secret information and sharing such information which is highly detrimental to the security concerns of the State and further use it to spread disaffection within the government for narrow private interests of vested quarters. The act of the accused also amounted to incite persons to commit any offence against other class/ section of society.”
During the investigation, the accused Tarun Behl was arrested on Wednesday and taken into Police remand for four days. Further investigation of the case is going on, said SSP Jammu Vinod Kumar, adding the record seized during searches is being scrutinized.