Hindustan Times (Jalandhar)

IAF OFFICER TALKED SEX WITH ONE ‘GIRL’, CAREER WITH OTHER

- HT Correspond­ent htreporter­s@hindustant­imes.com

NEWDELHI: The alleged ISI agents who posed as cyber entities Mahima Patel and Kiran Randhawa to honeytrap IAF officer Arun Marwaha kept the nature of their conversati­ons with him different to make sure they did not seem connected, police said on Saturday.

Group Captain Marwaha was arrested by the Delhi Police special cell on Wednesday for allegedly leaking classified defence informatio­n to the two “girls”.

Special cell sleuths continued Marwaha’s custodial interrogat­ion on Saturday during which he shared more details about his conversati­ons with the two. A senior police officer familiar with the matter said of the two, Kiran focused singularly on sexually explicit chats while Mahima discussed a range of topics with Marwaha.

“He met both on Facebook in December before inviting them to chat with him on WhatsApp. Kiran told him she was from Punjab while Mahima said she was from West Bengal. Both approached the IAF officer within a span of a few days but ensured that the nature of conversati­ons never dropped any hint that they could be linked,” said the officer.

And though both engaged in sex chat and lured him into sharing defence-related informatio­n, Mahima was more diversifie­d with the topics she discussed. She asked Marwaha about his family life, his past experience­s, his job and its challenges, police said.

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