Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
NEW YORK, 5th Feb. According to an official statement issued on Sunday the Anti-Terrorist Squad of Uttar Pradesh Police arrested an Indian Embassy staff in Moscow for allegedly providing ‘confidential’ information to Pakistani intelligence agency ISI.
It said that Satendra Siwal, a resident of the Hapur district in Uttar Pradesh, was arrested by the ATS for his alleged involvement in anti-India activities.
Siwal provided them with important confidential information, especially with regard to strategic activities of the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of External Affairs and the Indian military establishment in lieu of money, the statement read.
He had been working in the Ministry of External Affairs and was posted as the IBSA (India-Based Security Assistant) in the Indian Embassy in Moscow since 2021, the statement added.
It stated that Siwal was called to the ATS field unit in Meerut and confessed to his crime in the face of questioning.
An FIR was registered in the matter under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code.
The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad has arrested an Indian embassy worker for alleged anti-national activities.
The accused, identified as Satendra Siwal, was arrested from UP’s Meerut.
According to the UP ATS, Siwal has been sending strategically crucial information on the Indian Army to Pakistan.
“The ATS was receiving intelligence from various confidential sources that the handlers of the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, through some persons, were luring the employees of the Ministry of External Affairs with money to obtain strategically and strategically important information related to the Indian Army that is likely to pose a huge threat to the internal and external security of India,” the agency said in a statement.
The agency said it had called Siwal for interrogation at its Meerut office and he failed to provide satisfactory answers to their questions. When pressed he reportedly confessed to spying for the Pakistani intelligence agency.
He allegedly shared documents of Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Defence and gave details of military establishment to his ISI handlers, the statement added
