Ambala police, Air Force Station Security Staff and Army Intelligence Team have failed to get satisfactory result even after a week’s investigation carried by them as regard a youth of age around 25 identified as Ramu originally hailing from village Garwa in Gazipur district in Uttar Pradesh, presently working in a pharmaceuticals manufacturing company at Paonta Sahib in Himachal nabbed while trying to scale nearly 12 feet high outer wall of the Ambala Air Force Station last week on Tuesday night at around 7.20 PM. The youth was caught on CCTV camera while trying to scale the wall with the help of a rope and a wooden stick. He was immediately nabbed by the quick reaction team of the Air Force security personnel. The accused was handed over to Panjokhra police station Ambala for further investigation which registered a case against him on the complaint of Wing Commander Yashwant Singh under sections 449, 450, 451, 452, 453, 454 to 461 of IPC. During search, Police also recovered a mobile phone from him without sim card in it.
During police interrogating to find the purpose of his scaling the wall of the air force station, Ramu told that he left Paonta Sahib about four days ago to visit his home town in Uttar Pradesh in a bus when he was under the influence of some intoxicated substance but he was unable to say where he had taken intoxicated substance. He got down from the bus at village Dhankaur near Ambala Air Force Station in the evening and tried to climb over the wall assuming that there was Uttar Pradesh on the other side of wall as told by him during investigation. Ramu told that he had collected wooden stick from the immigration ground near Air Force Station and was rounded when trying to climb the wall. Meanwhile, Air Force Security team as well as Army Intelligence team also interrogated alleged accused but failed to find any constructive clue from the youth. A police team was also sent to the home village of Ramu to find out if he was having any criminal background. However, during checking police recovered a voter card from the youth in which his age was mentioned as 17 years instead of 25. Police also failed to find out who had given him intoxicated substance and where he was for a period of nearly three to four days after he left the factory.
Past scenario reveals, Air Force Station as well highly sensitive cantonment area at Ambala has remained on the target of spies, especially from Pakistan from time to time. According to information after the newly-inducted ‘Rafale’ fighter aircrafts this Air Force Station is among the highly sensitive air bases in the country. During Indo-Pak war decades ago attempts were made to blast Air Force Station with bombs which fell over and destroyed adjoining hundreds years old famous holy church and a couple of residential houses in a nearby colony. Information reveals, some of the intruders were rounded by the security forces while attempting to enter inside the Airport and were sentenced imprisonment when they were found having connection with Pakistan army. In the year 1985 few antisocial elements had entered into Air Force Station during late evening hours and spent night hiding themselves on a three during night but some of them were arrested by Air Force Police in the early morning hours and a few of them managed to flee and escaped.
During year 2003 police arrested Maqsood Akhtar a resident of Sahiwal sentenced 14 years imprisonment by the court. In year 2011 a youth Dharamvir resident of Sadhaura in Yamunanagar district was arrested while climbing the airport wall and the case was under trial in the court for a long time when accuse was released in the absence of evidences against them.
In the month December 2012, Balbir Singh a resident of Peedi Garhwal in Uttrarkhand was arrested while attempting to enter Air Force Station Ambala by climbing the wall. In another case a suspected female resident of village Nai Basti in Meerut district was arrested by military police, later she was released when found mentally sick. During year 2022 when Republic Day was being celebrated two drones were found flying over the Air Force Station and a case was registered with the police.
