The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Wednesday arrested a Border Security Force (BSF) jawan from Noida after he allegedly provided sensitive information to ISI.
According to early reports, the jawan, identified, as Achutanand Mishra from Noida befriended a woman on Facebook and leaked confidential information to her, which in turn she provided to ISI.
Misra, who is married and has two children, was interrogated by ATS and BSF officials on Monday and Tuesday in Noida. Prima facie, there is enough evidence to prove that he has committed crime under the Official Secrets Act, Singh said.
He was recruited in the Border Security Force (BSF) in 2006 and had come into contact with the woman in 2016. After sometime, he started sharing information about unit location, details of ammunition and pictures of the BSF camp, the DGP said.
Mishra, who belongs to Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa district, befriended the woman, originally from Egypt. She had made a fake Facebook profile and made him leak out defence secrets. The ATS is also checking that if there are other youth who have been lured by this woman.
The Pakistani number was saved in his mobile phone as "Pakistani dost" (friend), the DGP said, but declined to divulge the number to the media on which Misra had been chatting.
The ATS has seized all the mobile data from the jawan. Through this, they discovered that he had shared a military map to the woman, who in turn shared it with someone at the ISI.
The jawan has accepted his crime and a case has been registered against him under various sections of the Information Technology Act.
he pictures and videos sent by him have also been found in the extraction and this amounts to crime under sections 3,4,5,9 of the Official Secrets Act, 121A of the IPC, 66D of the IT Act, he said.
He will be produced before a Lucknow court for taking him on police remand for detailed interrogation.
Information regarding who all were with him in this network, the motivation which led him into sharing this information, whether he got money in return as well and his accounts will also be checked, the DGP said. It will also be ascertained as to what information he has passed on and what damage has been caused because of it.
"We have come to these conclusions based on the preliminary investigations," the DGP said, pointing out the need to create more awareness among the members of the armed and paramilitary forces.
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