In a serious safety breach, the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has arrested an ordnance manufacturing unit employee for allegedly spying for Pakistan’s Inter-Companies Intelligence (ISI). The accused, Ravindra Kumar, was reportedly honey-trapped by an ISI handler named ‘Neha’ and had been leaking delicate protection data for an prolonged interval.
Investigation revealed that the accused shared particulars resembling “each day manufacturing report,” “receipt of shops,” “the inventory that’s about to reach” and different delicate data resembling “particulars on drones and the Gaganyaan venture”.
In a press briefing, ADG UP ATS Nilabja Choudhary mentioned, “ATS UP and their affiliate companies received information that there’s a particular person named Ravindra Kumar was sharing totally different confidential and delicate data along with his Pak ISI handler. So, engaged on this, our Agra unit did a preliminary interrogation of Ravindra Kumar, and he was known as to ATS headquarters for detailed interrogation, the place it was proved that he shared very delicate data by means of a handler named Neha.”
He additional revealed that ISI has been operating comparable operations for a very long time, concentrating on people to extract essential defense-related data by honey-trapping them by means of social media web sites.
“…we discovered that he shared data with the mentioned handler infrequently, which included the each day manufacturing report of the mentioned Ordnance Manufacturing facility (through which he was working) and the receipt of shops, different paperwork of legal circulation, the inventory that’s about to reach, the requisition, all have been shared,” he mentioned.
The agent who used ‘Neha’ to introduce herself contacted Ravindra Kumar on Fb and in addition revealed that she labored for the Pakistani intelligence business. They each exchanged telephone numbers and Ravindra saved her quantity below the title ‘Chandan Retailer Keeper 2’.
In response to an India At this time report, the accused despatched her delicate data by means of WhatsApp.
