The Odisha Police have intensified the investigation into an espionage case associated to the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur, India’s premier missile testing facility, whereas the intelligence wing of the Andhra Pradesh Police and the Indian Air Force (IAF) have joined the probe.
A senior technical officer of the ITR, Chandipur has been arrested on prices of passing delicate info to his handler, a Pakistani girl, who reportedly despatched obscene movies to win over him. The remand of the accused, Baburam Dey (51), a technical officer in the ITR’s Telemetry Department, is coming to an finish on Tuesday.
“During our questioning, we came to know that the Pakistani handler was possibly in contact with another person in Andhra Pradesh. We had informed this to our Andhra Pradesh counterpart, which sent a time for further verification. Similarly, accused was also suspected to pass on information about flight operation for which IAF team wants to verify the claim,” Sagarika Nath, Balasore Superintendent of Police, mentioned.
Ms. Nath mentioned the police had seized six digital devices from Dey and so they had been despatched to Kolkata for additional forensic examination.
Moreover, the Balasore police bought to learn about suspicious monetary transactions involving Dey. “We are ascertaining as to how financial benefits had reached the accused,” she mentioned.
The Balasore police arrested Dey on February 24 after an year-long surveillance of him. A Sub Inspector (SI) of Police, Chandra Sekhar Mohanty, in a grievance mentioned Dey normally remained current for his assigned work in ITR, Chandipur on the time of testing of virtually all missiles and cluster bombs by the Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) and different defence companies.
He additionally used to obtain info in advance referring to such testing of missiles, and share labeled defence info concerning missile testing with one international agent who seemed to be from Pakistan, SI mentioned in his grievance.
“The accused was even capturing and sending photographs of prohibited areas and also communicating sensitive defence information to that foreign agent through internet. In return, Dey was getting monetary benefits and pleasure through sexual conversation and by exchanging of sexual photos and videos with the above Pakistani agent,” the FIR says.
