Recruited on Instagram, paid Rs 15,000-20,000 a month, 11 men from Punjab and Delhi allegedly fed footage of Indian military installations to Pakistan-based ISI and BKI handlers.
So far, police have arrested 18 individuals, including six juveniles. Ghaziabad Police claimed that the racket was operated by handlers based out of Pakistan, and other countries.
The men were accused of collecting & transmitting sensitive information related to defence establishment & circulation of fake Indian currency notes. Fifth accused died during trial.
Ken McCallum delivered the annual threat update Thursday, warning of 'new era' with 'overlapping threat' from both terrorists & state actors, & tech-driven threats. Read full speech.
The latest in a string of arrests, Gagandeep Singh alias Gagan was arrested on the basis of information received by Punjab Police’s Counter-Intelligence unit, says DGP.
Haseen was arrested Saturday, days after brother Kasim was held by Special Cell of Delhi Police, for ‘sending sensitive military info’ & ‘giving SIM cards in exhange for money to PIOs’.
Accused of spying, Pradeep Kumar was arrested in 2002 & acquitted in 2014. Though he cleared the 2016 judicial entrance, his appointment as an additional district judge remains stalled.
Jyoti Malhotra, Palak Sher Masih, and Suraj Masih are some of the latest to be booked under the OSA after India-Pakistan conflict, but such cases are often stuck in prolonged trials.
Since the bulk of citizens did not regard drinking as a crime, they had no respect for the prohibition laws and did not cooperate with the police, wrote MV Venkata Rao in 1962.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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