After falling into a honey trap, he came into regular contact with at least three Pakistani handlers through social media platforms such as WhatsApp and allegedly supplied sensitive defence-related information, including during Operation Sindoor, Kumar said.
Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena leaders met Maharashtra Governor C P Radhakrishnan on Monday, submitted evidence in the honey trap case and sought the ouster of tainted ministers from the Fadnavis-led Mahayuti cabinet.
Incidentally, the cooperation minister had alleged that there were pen drives of 48 MLAs. Honey trapping is not restricted to state leaders, but extended to leaders from national parties. This is a menace he said urging the state home minister for action. He had maintained that there were attempts to honey trap him as well.
A policeman, posing as an actress on social media, lured Manoj to come all the way from Mumbai to meet him (as his lady love) in South Delhi as per a pre-planned operation which ended in his arrest, the police said on Friday.
The crime branch team unearthed a honey trap syndicate for extorting money from gullible and apprehended three people, who were impersonating as Delhi Police officials, it said on Wednesday.
The jawan was identified as Shantimoy Rana, 24, a resident of village Kanchanpur district, Bagunda West Bengal. The espionage activities were being carried out in Rajasthan by Pakistani intelligence agencies.
Replying to a query in Rajya Sabha whether Pakistan's ISI using honeytrap as a tool to trap Indian officers, the Minister said: 'Inimical agencies have been making efforts to honeytrap Indian officers in armed forces.'
While one jawan is from Madhya Pradesh, the other is from Assam and both were honey-trapped by the premier intelligence service official from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
The Indian Army has reportedly detained an officer for alleged honey trap suspicions, following a search of his official premises.…
