Navy staffer arrested for allegedly leaking Operation Sindoor details to Pakistan
An Indian Navy staffer posted at the naval headquarters in Delhi has been arrested for allegedly leaking sensitive information to a Pakistani handler in exchange for money, PTI reported on Thursday.
Vishal Yadav, an upper division clerk in the Directorate of Dockyard, is from Rewari in Haryana. He was arrested in Rajasthan’s Jaipur on Wednesday.
Yadav had allegedly shared information about Operation Sindoor with the handler.
The matter will be jointly investigated by several security agencies.
Vishnu Kant Gupta, Jaipur’s inspector general of police (Crime Investigation Department-Security) said that Yadav had allegedly leaked the classified details to a female Pakistani handler who was posing as an Indian woman, PTI reported.
“Yadav confessed to receiving approximately Rs 2 lakh in total for the information he passed on,” Gupta was quoted as saying. “This included Rs 50,000 for leaking information related to Operation Sindoor.”
Some of the payments were through cryptocurrency, said the police officer.
Yadav was approached by the Pakistani operative through the social media platform Facebook, PTI quoted unidentified intelligence officials as saying. The handler had sent a friend request using a fake profile with the name Priya Sharma.
The two communicated regularly on WhatsApp and later Telegram, which offers end-to-end encryption.
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