NIA Conducts Raids Across 7 States To Probe Leaking Of Defence Secrets To Pakistan
The raids pertained to the probe in the case of some Indian nationals having received money from Pakistan to undertake spying activities in India, the NIA said in a statement.
The Countrywide Investigation Employer (NIA) has raided 16 areas across seven states in its investigation within the the case of leaking of India’s defence secrets and tactics via a Pakistan-based undercover agent racket. As per an decent statement issued Thursday, NIA communities on Wednesday searched premises linked to suspects obsessed on the espionage racket.
“Big searches were conducted at 16 areas in Gujarat, Karnataka, Kerala, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Haryana within the case linked to leakage of categorized defence recordsdata thru a Pakistani ISI espionage racket,” the anti-terror association suggested.
Consistent with the statement, a whole of twenty-two mobile alongside with a slew of touchy recordsdata, were seized within the course of the raids conducted via NIA sleuths across seven states.
The raids pertained to the probe within the case of some Indian nationals having obtained money from Pakistan to undertake spying activities in India. The case, before everything registered in January 2021 via the counter-intelligence mobile of Andhra Pradesh, grew to change into taken over via the beneficial probe association in July final 12 months.
Consistent with the NIA statement, the case entails the leakage of touchy quintessential recordsdata touching on the Indian Navy as a challenge of an anti-India conspiracy hatched from across the border.
On July 19, 2023, the NIA had filed a chargesheet against two accused– Akash Solanki, a Indian citizen, and a Pakistani countrywide identified as Meer Balaj Khan. The beneficial association, citing investigations, revealed that Solanki and Khan had been strolling a undercover agent racket in India and leaking quintessential defence secrets and tactics to Pakistan, adding that when as Solanki has been arrested, Khan stays absconding.
Later, on November 6, 2023, the NIA had filed a supplementary worth sheet against two diverse accused people, Manmohan Surendra Panda and Alven.
Even as Panda has been arrested, Alven, a Pakistani intelligence operative, is on the run, the statement suggested.
In May 2024, the NIA filed its 2d supplementary worth sheet against one accused, Amaan Salim Shaikh, for conspiring with Pakistan intelligence operatives, it launched.
(With PTI inputs)
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