Lucknow, 4 Feb: The Uttar Pradesh Police Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) arrested a person working in the Indian Embassy in Moscow for allegedly engaging in anti-national activities with Pakistani intelligence agency ISI and providing them with sensitive information about the strategic activities of the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of External Affairs, and Indian military establishments, according to an official statement issued here on Sunday.
Satendra Siwal, the son of Jaiveer Singh and a resident of Shahmahiuddinpur village in the Hapur district’s police station area, was detained by the ATS, according to the statement.
Siwal works for the Ministry of External Affairs and is now assigned to the Indian Embassy in Moscow, Russia, according to the statement.
The ATS was receiving intelligence from various confidential sources that the handlers of the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI were luring employees of the Ministry of External Affairs with money in order to obtain strategically important information about the Indian Army, which is likely to pose a huge threat to India’s internal and external security.
The ATS discovered that Siwal was involved in anti-India activities with the network of ISI handlers and that important confidential information about the strategic activities of the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of External Affairs, and the Indian military establishments is being made available to them for money.
According to the statement, Siwal was taken to the ATS field unit in Meerut and questioned in accordance with the norms. He was unable to provide sufficient replies and confessed to his crime throughout the questioning process, it claimed.
An FIR has been filed against Siwal, who has been serving as the IBSA (India Based Security Assistant) in the Indian Embassy in Moscow, Russia, since 2021, at the ATS police station in Lucknow, under Section 121A of the IPC (waging war against the country) and the Official Secrets Act of 1923, according to the statement.
