In the meantime, the three mobile phone numbers, the digital data of his phones were shared with surveillance and cyber experts who were analysing it.

Subsequently, the SSB and ATS informed all central agencies, including the Intelligence Bureau (IB), Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) and Military Intelligence about the arrest.

Kunjing was booked under Section 21 of the Foreigners and Immigration Act, 2025 for entering India through an illegal route. After his medical examination, he was produced before local court and sent to Bahraich jail under 14-day judicial custody.

The central intelligence officers would question him inside the prison itself under tight security.

The sources claimed that the focus of the central agencies while interrogating Kunjing would be to extract information about his contacts in Pakistan and unravel his travel history across the sub-continent. Moreover, the investigators are also trying to ascertain his purpose of intrusion and the contact whom he wanted to meet in Delhi.

Sources said investigators were examining if Kunjing's movements, cross-country travel and marked maps indicated possible reconnaissance, espionage-linked activity, or the presence of a larger cross-border network operating along the porous Indo–Nepal frontier.

The interrogation may continue for the next few days as agencies verify digital, financial and travel footprints recovered from his devices and documents.