How DRDO guest house manager turned into a ‘spy’ for Pakistan’s ISI

Mahendra Prasad, a resident of Almora in Uttarakhand, has been arrested on charges of spying and passing sensitive information to Pakistan’s intelligence agency, ISI. He was employed as the manager of a Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) guest house in Jaisalmer and was posted at the Pokhran Field Firing Range guest house, a high-security facility often visited by senior military officers, defence experts, and scientists

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