ISI spies selling army info nabbed

NEW DELHI/JAIPUR: In a major crackdown on Pakistani spy network in India, Military Intelligence and Rajasthan police on Monday caught two civil defence employees for passing on information about strategic Army installations to the ISI. One of the Indians was honey-trapped by a Pakistani woman ISI operative on social media.

Official sources said, Rajasthan police, based on intel

ligence input provided by Lucknow based Military Intel

ligence (MI) arrested Vikas Kumar (29), a civil defence employee at an Army Ammunition Depot and Chiman Lal (22), a civil contractual employee of Army's Mahajan Field Firing Range (MFFR) for working as spies of Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI).

Both the Ammunition Depot in Shri Ganganagar and MMFR in Bikaner are strategically important military instal

lations in the Western front of India.

In August, 2019 the MI Lucknow through its sleuths, had learnt about the espionage agent, Vikas Kumar who was passing military information to his handlers in Pakistan.

Kumar was cultivated by a Multan-based female Pakistani Intelligence Operative (PIO), on Facebook. The PIO ran a pseudonymous Facebook account, pretending to be a Hindu woman ‘Anoshka Chopra' based in India.

The MI unit ascertained that Kumar was passing military information related to ORBAT (Order of Battle; composition and order of a military fighting formation), ammunition (photos, state, quantity, type, arrival, departure), units coming for firing practice/ military exercise to MFFR, personality traits of senior army officers in lieu of money. It was also found that Kumar was receiving payments in three of his own and his brother's bank accounts.