Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on October 4 that state police had arrested two people on suspicion of passing information about Army movements to Pakistan. He said one was a retired Army soldier working again on a contractual basis. The announcement, reported by NDTV and Northeast Live and carried on Sarma’s own public account, widened an earlier police disclosure naming one suspect in Guwahati.
Sarma said the arrests followed information from central agencies and that a central agency would take up the further investigation. His public statement describes that as the next step. The material reviewed for this report does not confirm a completed transfer of the suspects or case, identify the central agency that will receive it, or establish a court finding on the allegations.
The earlier Assam Police account identified Abhishek Kumar Singh, 31, from Bihar’s East Champaran district. According to the police statement reported by The Economic Times and Jagran, the Special Task Force apprehended him from rented accommodation in Guwahati’s Satgaon area during the night of October 3–4. Police said he was subsequently arrested in STF police-station case 09/2026. The night-time operation and Sunday’s wider two-arrest announcement are different parts of the same developing disclosure.
Police said the initial information came from the Army’s Gajraj Military Intelligence unit in Tezpur. The Assam STF worked with Sonitpur police to develop that information before the Guwahati operation. NDTV’s local report names STF Inspector General Partha Sarathi Mahanta and Sonitpur Senior Superintendent of Police Barun Purkayastha as the officers coordinating that work.
Investigators allege Singh was communicating with a Pakistani intelligence operative and passing confidential information concerning security forces. Police reported seizing a mobile phone, SIM cards and documents they described as incriminating. Those descriptions are the investigators’ account; the underlying communications, seized documents and a forensic assessment were not available in the material reviewed. Their reported seizure does not by itself prove the allegation.
Sarma also alleged that online personal contact had been used to draw the two into sharing information, according to Jagran’s account with PTI inputs. The reviewed reports do not establish the second person’s identity or specify which of the two is the retired soldier. This report therefore does not attribute that service history to Singh or add a third arrest to the chief minister’s total.
The original police FIR, arrest and remand records, and a response from either accused or their lawyers were not available in the sources reviewed. The chief minister’s original October 4 post was retrieved, while the police statement is available here through attributed news reports. Further investigation remains open, and neither arrest amounts to a conviction.