"On May 3, Maharashtra's anti-terrorism squad arrested scientist Kurulkar, the head of Defence Research and Development Organisation's Research and Development Establishment (Engineers) laboratory, for allegedly sharing sensitive information with a woman who identified herself as Zara Dasgupta – an alleged Pakistani intelligence agent.
Kurulkar, who was attracted to the woman, shared information about sensitive defence projects in exchange of nude pictures and sexting, the chargesheet alleged."
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"In February, Baburam Dey, a senior technical officer at the DRDO's Integrated Test Range in Chandipur, Odisha was arrested for allegedly leaking secrets about India's missile tests to a Pakistani spy. The purported woman, with whom Dey was in conversation for over a year, had reportedly introduced herself as a poor science student from Uttar Pradesh who was interested in higher education and research."
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"In June 2022, Hyderabad Police arrested Dukka Mallikarjuna Reddy, a contractual employee at DRDO's Defence Research & Development Laboratory, for allegedly sharing sensitive information with a suspected agent of Pakistani intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence. Reddy had allegedly shared the information with an agent through social media. A Facebook account named Natasha Rao had befriended Reddy in March 2020, claiming that she worked at a United Kingdom-based Defence Journal and that her father previously worked in the Indian Air Force. The purported woman reportedly agreed to marry Reddy and they were in contact until December 2021, when the profile changed its name to Simran Chopra and stopped communicating with him."
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"Similarly, Maharashtra Police arrested Deepak Shirsat, an assistant supervisor at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, in October 2020 for allegedly leaking details of Indian fighter jets and the company's manufacturing unit to Pakistan. Shirsat was allegedly honey trapped by a Pakistani national who texted with him on social media posing as a woman, police said. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, a government defence company, designs and manufactures some of the Indian Air Force's aircraft.
In October 2018, Nishant Aggarwal, an engineer employed with BrahMos Aerospace was arrested by Uttar Pradesh's anti-terrorism squad and military intelligence for alleged espionage. “Extremely sensitive documents” were reportedly recovered from him. BrahMos Aerospace, a joint venture between India and Russian missile developer NPO Mashinostroyeniya, manufactures BrahMos supersonic cruise missile.
The prosecution has alleged that Aggarwal was honey trapped. During the investigation, the anti-terrorism squad came across Facebook accounts with names Neha Sharma and Pooja Ranjan – suspected to be operated by Pakistani intelligence agents – that were in touch with Aggarwal."
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"In July 2022, Indian Army soldier Shantimay Rana was arrested for allegedly leaking military information to Pakistan after being honey trapped by Pakistani agents posing as women through social media accounts with the names Gurnaur Kaur, alias Ankita, and Nisha."
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"This came two months after another soldier Pradeep Kumar Prajapat, deployed at “an extra-sensitive regiment”, was arrested by Rajasthan Police on similar grounds. The agent, claiming to be a woman from Madhya Pradesh, talked to him through social media and video calls. Prajapat shared the information after the woman promised to marry him, police said."
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"During the same month, the Delhi Police had arrested Indian Air Force sergeant Devendra Sharma for allegedly leaking information about defence installations to a Pakistani agent posing as a woman by deceitfully getting the information from computers. The Indian Express reported quoting unidentified Delhi Police officials as alleging that they suspect Sharma was honey-trapped by the agent on Facebook, and may have also received money in exchange."
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"In February 2020, 13 Indian Navy personnel from several naval bases were arrested after they allegedly shared sensitive information through social media after being honey trapped by Pakistani operatives."
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In December 2015, KK Ranjeet, a junior Indian Air Force personnel, was arrested for allegedly sharing secret documents about the organisation's operations with Pakistani intelligence operatives. Ranjeet was deceived by a fake social media profile named Damini McNaught which portrayed her as working at a United Kingdom-based media firm.
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This one caused quite a bit of stir back then because most if not all of them were upper caste Hindu and several of them Brahmin which caused some arguments WOKE on the Brahmin Question on /r/India.
I don't know how this was not a bigger national discussion. Almost a dozen Navy officers were arrested for spying for Pakistan recently under Operation Dolphin’s Nose
https://www.india.com/news/india/op...ls-were-spying-for-pakistan-arrested-3884727/
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/sto...onage-case-linked-pakistan-1633884-2020-01-04
https://www.dailypioneer.com/2020/india/11-navy-personnel-arrested-till-now.html
Sunny Kumar (Alwar, RJ), SK Das (Gopalpur, Odisha) and S Kumar Sarma (UP).
Others accused Ashok Kumar (Jhunjhun, RJ), Ashok Kumar (Jodhpur, RJ), V Kumar (Alwar, RJ) and Somanath (Pune, MH) were arrested from Karwar Command of Karnataka while one Ashok Kumar Singh was posted at Submarine based at Mumbai.
Reports have revealed that all these sailors were recruited in 2017. In 2018, they were contacted by some women online and they introduced them to the ISI handler. The sailors have been giving out information in the exchange for a hefty amount of money.
They were literally spying for Pakistan. Indian media which goes nuts and has crazy shouting ultranationalist lunatics debate like monkeys on the smallest of issues but this hasn't recieved any attention at all? Wtf
