Suspicious radio signals in code language intercepted in and around Kolkata, inquiry begun
Kolkata, Nov 22 (IBNS): Intelligence unit of West Bengal police is on high alert as Bengal Amateur Radio Club (HAM) intercepted suspicious radio signals in an 'unknown' code language in and around Kolkata for last few weeks, reports said.
According to reports, the radio conversation was intercepted multiple times since Diwali by the HAM radio operators in the city.
"For past few weeks, we have been frequently intercepting a conversation in unknown code language at late night through Very High Frequency (VHF) radio channel and these radio signals were received from areas located within 25-30 km. radius of Kolkata," Secretary of West Bengal Radio Club (Amateur) and HAM radio operator, Ambarish Nag Biswas, told IBNS.
"We have informed Union Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, International Wireless Monitoring Station, state police's telecommunications cell and relevant union agencies about our findings and have sent them all data along with the strange communications' recordings," Biswas said.
The senior HAM radio operator claimed that they intervened in the radio conversation and asked the 'unknown' communicators about their identities.
"Whenever we tried to intervene in their VHF radio communication and asked their identities, communicators went silent and the signal went off," Ambarish Nag Biswas said.
"Though we could neither decode the radio signal nor identify the language of the conversation, the suspicious communicators' accent seems like Pashto or any other local/tribal language of Afghanistan," he added.
A senior official of the state police said that they were looking into the matter.
"We have informed about the interception of some suspicious radio signals in and around Kolkata and police are looking into it," Debasish Roy, ADG and IGP (Telecommunications) of West Bengal police, told IBNS.
"We have forwarded details to Directorate of Coordination Police Wireless (DCPW), a wing of Union Home Ministry, in New Delhi for necessary actions into the case," Debasish Roy added.
A senior official of DCPW in New Delhi told IBNS that their intelligence team was working on the matter.
"We have received a case of the interception of 'suspicious' radio signals from West Bengal police and our team is working on it to decode the communication as well to locate the positions of the communicators," the official said.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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