‘BSF jawan has 500 FB friends from Pak’
Around 17% of BSF trooper Tej Bahadur Yadav’s Facebook friends are from Pakistan, a probe by the home ministry has revealed.
“A scrutiny of Tej Bahadur Yadav’s account showed that 17% of his Facebook friends are from across the border. Who knows how many of them are connected to Pakistani spy agency ISI? We also found that there are 39 fake Facebook accounts in his name and they are keeping the controversy alive,” said a senior home ministry official.
A senior BSF official said Yadav has more than 3,000 Facebook friends and around 500 among them are from Pakistan.
Yadav was deployed at a highaltitude base at the Line of Control (LoC) between India and Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir in the first of week of January. He put out selfie videos alleging that the ration meant for jawans was being diverted to the open market by seniors and jawans are getting sub-standard food.
After the videos went viral, a court of inquiry was instituted by the BSF on the directions of Union home minister Rajnath Singh. The BSF inquiry has gone into the complaints of Yadav in detail and its report is expected soon.
Yadav had complained about lack of ‘tadka’ (tempering) in his dal. Therefore, the inquiry has also looked into the availability of ingredients for ‘tadka’ like cumin, ginger, onion and garlic at the base.