Delhi; 19 January 2020 (UMM): National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested 11 Indian Navy soldiers caught spying for Pakistan’s ISI. According to Nav Bharat Times, these soldiers were honey trapped by the ISI and ended up transferring Indian Navy's secret information.
Two others, not part of Indian Navy, were also nabbed.
Those arrested are Satish Mishra, Deepak Trivedi, Pankaj Ayyar, Sanjit Kumar, Sanjay Tripathi, Bablu Singh, Vikas Kumar, Rahul Singh, Sanjay Rawat, Devsharan Gupta, Rinku Tyagi, Rishi Mishra and Ved Ram.
Talking to ANI, NIA spokesperson said that these soldiers were arrested from different Navy bases including those in Mumbai, Karwad, and Vishakha Pattanam. They are charged with sharing Navy’s secrets through their social media profiles and other channels.
Several other Navy soldiers were arrested earlier. According to a report published in India Today 4 Jan 2020, Rajesh, Lokanda and Nirajan, serving at Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam were arrested.
On December 20, seven Naval personnel - three from Visakhapattanam based Eastern Naval Command, three from Mumbai Based Western Naval Command and one from Karwar the base of Karnataka - were arrested. They were allegedly involved in a spy ring with links to Pakistan.
All these men had joined service post-2015. The three accused arrested from ENC Visakhapattanam are Sunny Kumar (Alwar, RJ), SK Das (Gopalpur, Odisha) and S Kumar Sarma (UP).
Others accused Ashok Kumar (Jhunjhun, RJ), Ashok Kumar (Jodhpur, RJ), V Kumar (Alwar, RJ) and Somanath (Pune, MH) were arrested from Karwar Command of Karnataka while one Ashok Kumar Singh was posted at Submarine based at Mumbai.
They were allegedly paid by Pakistani Intelligence agency ISI for sensitive information about Indian Naval ships and submarines, India Today reports said.
