[3] Between 24 August 1978 and 23 January 1979, 50-odd persons who had worked in the 168 Infantry Brigade and its subordinate units at Samba, 40 km from Jammu on the international border, were arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan at the instance of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (MI).
They were all taken into custody at the instance of two self-confessed Pakistani spies who worked as gunners in the Indian Army - Sarwan Dass and Aya Singh.
The book The Price of Loyalty, written by Captain Ranbir Singh Rathaur, is a first hand account of the brutal and inhuman torture inflicted on the officers and men who were falsely implicated in the Samba Spy Case.
[6] In 2019, over 40 years of the alleged scandal, the Delhi High Court, sought a response from the Government of India following a petition filed by former Captains, Ashok Kumar Rana and Ranbir Singh Rathaur.
Major Singh also brought some major issues of the case; including: Aya Singh, who was killed while trying to cross Indo-Pak border, can not be a reliable witness; Havildar Ram Swarup's confessional statement also built the case while Ram Swarup died of torture after interrogation; Swaran Dass made an under oath statement in 1994 in which Dass was forced to implicate innocent army personnel.