The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has arrested an Indian embassy worker for alleged anti-national activities. The accused, identified as Satendra Siwal, was arrested from UP’s Meerut.
Siwal worked at Indian embassy in Moscow and he is accused of spying for Pakistani intelligence agency ISI.
He has been posted at Moscow embassy since 2021 and worked as Multi-Tasking staff at the ministry of external affairs.
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According to the UP ATS, Siwal has been sending strategically crucial information on Indian Army to Pakistan.
“The ATS was receiving intelligence from various confidential sources that the handlers of the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, through some persons, were luring the employees of the Ministry of External Affairs with money to obtain strategically and strategically important information related to the Indian Army that is likely to pose a huge threat to the internal and external security of India,” the agency said in a statement.
The agency said it had called Siwal for interrogation at its Meerut office and he failed to provide satisfactory answers to their questions. When pressed further, he reportedly confessed spying for the Pakistani intelligence agency.
He allegedly shared documents of Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Defence and gave details of military establishment to his ISI handlers.
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