Sending shockwaves in the country's highest and possibly the most secure place, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) —is an espionage scam involving an undercover Bangladeshi spy.
NEW DELHI: Sending shockwaves in the country's highest and possibly the most secure place - the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) —is an espionage scam involving an undercover Bangladeshi spy. Dewanchand Malik posted as a high ranking deputy director of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) for five years is absconding now.
The alleged infiltration of the PMO's office was revealed after Anuj Bharadwaj, director, Aviation Research Centre, who is working in the Cabinet Secretariat, registered an FIR at the Lodhi Colony police station. With no trace of the alleged mole, he has been declared an absconder.
The alleged Bangladeshi spy, Dewanchand Malik, alias DC, was working in the PMO's Cabinet Secretariat as deputy director of RAW between 1999 and May 2005. It is feared that Malik has leaked confidential security information. He is also believed to have stolen some sensitive documents.
As soon as the breach was revealed, a team immediately left for 24 Parganas in West Bengal to verify the residential address given by Malik. However, locals told the team that Malik was, in fact, a Bangladesh citizen.
Intelligence agencies have issued a lookout notice for the fugitive. A team has been set up to probe Malik's disappearance.
Over the years, a spate of espionage cases has rocked the nation. Joint secy in RAW, Rabinder Singh, defected to the US on June 5, 2004. In 2002, 12 former staff of the PMO and the Rashtrapati Bhavan Secretariat were sentenced to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment in the Coomar Narain espionage case of 1985.
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