In a serious revelation, a minimum of three folks had been arrested by the Odisha Special Task Force (STF) for allegedly procuring SIM playing cards with pretend names and sharing their OTPs with Pakistani intelligence operatives.
Speaking to the media, STF IG J N Pankaj stated that the one-time passwords (OTPs) had been used to create pretend accounts on social media for pursuing anti-India actions. The accused had been promoting the OTPs (linked/generated utilizing the SIMs) to varied purchasers, together with some Pakistani Intelligence Operatives (PIO)/ ISI brokers in Pakistan in addition to in India.
In return, they used to get fee from Pakistani brokers based mostly in India, Pankaj advised reporters. The accused had been allegedly in contact with a lady PIO agent who was arrested in Rajasthan final yr.
The OTPs had been used to create varied accounts on social media like Whatsapp, Facebook, and Instagram, and in addition for opening e mail accounts.
SIM playing cards had been used to enroll for social media accountsÂ
These social media platforms had been utilized in anti-India actions like spying, communication with terrorists, radicalisation, working anti-India propaganda, fuelling anti-India sentiments on social media, honey-trapping, and different anti-social actions, Pankaj stated.
People discovered such social media platforms reliable as they had been registered with Indian cell numbers, the STF official stated.
The accounts opened on on-line procuring platforms had been additionally used to provide gadgets to terrorists and anti-India parts, he stated.
ITI teacher together with two others arrestedÂ
The accused had been recognized as Pathanisamant Lenka (35) of Badapandusar in Nayagarh district, Saroj Kumar Nayak (26), an ITI teacher from Dasapalla space in Nayagarh district and Soumya Pattanaik (19) from Sujanpur space in Jajpur district.
The STF personnel nabbed them on Friday throughout a raid following a tip-off.
Nineteen cell phones, pre-activated SIM playing cards, ATM playing cards, and a laptop computer had been seized from their possession, Pankaj stated.
An SDJM court docket in Bhubaneswar on Saturday remanded them to judicial custody for 14 days.
(With inputs from PTI)
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