Ludhiana: Maloud citizen has been arrested in the case of espionage for allegedly helping the Pakistani intelligence operation (PIO) in its efforts to honey trap defense personnel, police said Ludhiana.
Woman accused of allegedly even managed to enter the two groups whatsapp defense unauthorized personnel.
The charges were arrested have been identified as Jaswinder Singh of village Uchi Maloud David, who works at a factory in Malerkotla.
The city police had received confidential feedback from the Air Force Intelligence Unit, Jodhpur, about allegations that Singh woman with Facebook friends about a year ago.
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Deputy (ADCP) – Investigation Rupuk Kaur Bhatti said following the input, they arrested the accused and asked him about his relationship with the woman.
“During interrogation, it was found that the defendant contact with Pio through Facebook.
She had introduced herself as Jasleen Brar of Bathinda and claiming that he worked at the branch Account Indian Army in Bathinda Cantt.
To win his trust, she was also sharing audio recordings related to the movement battalion.
Singh claimed he fell in love with him because he also wants to join the defense forces, however, he could not remove the test.
“” After winning the trust Singh, a woman who is accused of taking his help to get the number whatsapp, enabled through a password one time ( OTP), claiming that he needed them to some covert operation and that he was too busy to get it yourself.
Singh trust him and give him OTP to get three points WhatsApp.
Pio use these numbers to contact seven defense personnel and tried to trap him.
Pio also made it into two groups whatsapp defense personnel, the ‘Post Mutual Cmd West’ and ‘Update Information MES’, “added ADCP, warning that the PIO, become a member of these groups monitor their conversations, and hopefully honey trap personnel unsuspecting through engineering social.
However, the clerk said that the defense personnel are not allowed to have a whatsapp groups and these groups are made unofficially.
“In the midst of all this, Singh understood that she was playing around and was not going to marry him.
But he did not cut the connection with him.” ADCP added that Singh also told the police that he had received Rs 10,000 from Pio in bank accounts ICICI through its digital wallet as monetary relief, however, Pio directing it to transfer the amount to the account of SBI in Pune, Maharashtra.
“It is also an audio message indicates that Pio took him to Jaipur Bus Stand to receive a CD, which is being verified,” said Bhatti.
A pine under various sections of the Official Secrets Act and the Indian Penal Code has been registered at Police Station Division Number 6 in this issue.