Jaipur, June 26: An Indian Navy staffer posted in naval headquarters in Delhi was arrested in Jaipur for allegedly leaking defence-related sensitive information to a Pakistani handler in exchange for money, a police official said on Thursday.
Vishal Yadav, an upper division clerk (UDC) in the Directorate of Dockyard at the Navy building, allegedly also shared details on Operation Sindoor – strikes carried out by the Indian Armed Forces in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in response to the Pahalgam terror attack.
Inspector General of Police (CID-Security) Vishnu Kant Gupta said Yadav, originally from Rewari in Haryana, leaked the classified information to a female Pakistani handler posing as an Indian woman.
“Yadav confessed to receiving approximately Rs 2 lakh in total for the information he passed on,” Gupta said.
“This included Rs 50,000 for leaking information related to Operation Sindoor,” the IGP said, adding some of the payments were also made in cryptocurrency.
Special public prosecutor Sudesh Kumar Satwan revealed that intelligence agencies caught hold of Yadav while they were investigating an old case, during which a lead led them to him.
Agencies then put him under surveillance, and when it was determined that he sent confidential information to the handlers of the Pakistani intelligence agency, Yadav was questioned, Satwan said.
He was finally arrested when sensitive documents were found on his mobile phone. (PTI)
