Man held in Rajasthan for sharing army's secret information with Pak

Rajasthan Police based on intelligence inputs provided by the Military Intelligence MI Jaipur have arrested a civil defence employee of the Military Engineering Services MES in Rajasthans Niwaru on charges of working as an espionage agent for a Pakistani intelligence agencyIt was reported in September this year that the MI Jaipur learnt about an espionage agent in Niwaru who was passing militaryrelated information to his handlers in PakistanThe individual was identified as Ramniwas Gaura 28 a civil motor driver working with the MESIt was learnt that Gaura was in contact with one Pakistan Intelligence Operator PIO namely Ekta Jasmeet Kour through Facebook and WhatsAppDuring his two years of contact with the PIO he shared the information about units and formations at Niwaru and Jaipur as also information about various offices and personnel in these two placesThe case details were shared with the police headquarters in Jaipur following which and a joint operation was planned to apprehend GauraA joint team of Jaipur Police Intelligence and MI Jaipur was formed and all the findings were analysed againFurther details were acquired and conclusive evidence was gatheredGaura was eventually detained on Friday During questioning he reportedly confessed that he had received a friend request from the PIOs Facebook profile Ekta in FebruaryMarch 2020 and accepted itThey soon became very friendly shared their WhatsApp numbers with each other and started chatting apart from interacting over audiovideo callsThe PIO used to use an Indian WhatsApp number and had claimed that she was working with the Principal Controller of Defence Account PCDA ShimlaAfter the initial friendly chats Ekta started asking Gaura about information of military nature which he readily shared For monetary favours he shared his account details with Ekta and in March 2020 demanded Rs 10000Further details are being examined by the Jaipur Police Intelligence and MI Other agencies have also joined the investigation following Gauras arrestRajasthan Police Additional Director General Intelligence Umesh Mishra told the media that the team received a tipoff about Gaura passing secret information of the army to Pakistan for the last several daysThe intelligence team started monitoring his activities and the investigation revealed that the accused was in contact with an account created on social media with a fake name ChhadamThe secret information of the Indian Army was being sent by the accused through this account and money was also being demanded by him In fact he also shared the details of his bank account with the Pakistani officerGaura is likely to be produced at a local court soon by the police A police remand may be requested for further examination More leads are expected to emerge officials saidKeep scrolling to read more newsCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates MidDay is now on Telegram Click here to join our channel middayinfomedialtd and stay updated with the latest newsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever