A soldier has been arrested from the Cantonment area of Meerut in Uttar Pradesh on charges of passing on military information to Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI, an official said on Wednesday.
According to media reports, the accused was passing on “confidential and vital information” related to the Western Command. He used end-to-end encrypted messages on WhatsApp to spy.
The man had been posted in Meerut for the past two years with a Signal regiment. Military intelligence officers are said to be interrogating him.
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SP city Ranvijay Singh has claimed that the police has no information about him being arrested.
Though no official statement has been issued by the army in this regard, a highly placed source, who did not wish to be named, confirmed that the soldier was arrested three days before on serious charges. He was allegedly sharing vital information about army establishments through WhatsApps etc with his cross boarder contacts in Pakistan.
The soldier hails from Uttarakhand and has been reportedly in touch with Pakistani officials for the past 10 months.
A court of enquiry has been ordered.
This has come days after an engineer Nishant Pradeep Agarwal was arrested from BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited in Maharashtra by the Uttar Pradesh police for allegedly spying for Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Reportedly, Agrawal had been interacting with two Facebook accounts, believed to be run by Pakistan’s intelligence operatives.
Agrawal was arrested from Nagpur by a team of UP ATS in an operation conducted with the Maharashtra Police and Military Intelligence. He was booked under the Official Secrets Act (OSA).
Agrawal was working for the last four years in the BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd (BAPL), an Indo-Russian Joint Venture. Authorities are probing if Agrawal had passed on sensitive information about the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile to his ‘handler’ suspected to be a Pakistani.
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