Rajasthan police arrests MHA staffer in Pokhran spying case

04 Mar 2013 Evaluate

Rajasthan police has arrested Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) staffer, Chandrashekhar,  for his alleged link to spy Sumer Khan who was arrested for leaking reports of the Indian Air Force's air exercise 'Iron Fist' in Pokhran to ISI. He was caught after his calls to Pakistan were intercepted by the army intelligence and IB.

According to Intelligence report, Sumer was sharing information of the IAF's exercise with his maternal uncle in Rahim Yar Khan in Pakistan for days. Sumer had been working for his uncle for the past two years and had been sharing vital information related to all the exercises, which have taken place in the region in the past two years besides the various defence installations in the region.

Currently, Sumer is under the custody of the Joint Interrogation Cell in Jaipur where the security agencies are questioning him. Sumer, an expert in computers and would talk to his uncle over phone in code words. He would frequently travel to Pakistan and is believed to have passed on maps and other documents pertaining to defence structure in the western sector.

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