A senior technical officer of Interim Test Range, Chandipur – India’s premier missile testing facility – has been arrested on prices of passing sensitive info to his handler, suspected to be a Pakistan nationwide.
The officer has been recognized as Baburam Dey (51), a technical officer within the telemetry division of ITR.
“Mr. Dey was usually present, in view of his work at ITR, during the testing of almost all missiles and cluster bombs by Defence Research Development Organisation [DRDO] and other defence agencies. He stayed in contact with DRDO staff and scientists and was exposed to sensitive technical information related to missile launches,” reported Chandra Sekhar Monanty, a sub-inspector (SI) of police, who was assigned to maintain watch on the accused by Balasore district police.
As per the FIR, Mr. Dey used to get advance info relating to such testing of missiles and share the categorized defence info with one international agent who seems to be from Pakistan.
“The accused captured and sent photographs of prohibited areas and also communicated sensitive defence information to the foreign agent through Internet. In return, Mr. Dey was receiving monetary benefits and had sexual conversations and exchanged sexual photos and videos with the above Pakistani agent,” it’s alleged. The man was beneath surveillance for the previous one yr.
“He has been arrested for passing sensitive information about ITR activities in exchange for obscene videos. We have intensified our investigation by interrogating a few more officials of ITR,” mentioned Himansu Lal, Inspector-General of Police (Eastern Range).
Balasore Superintendent of Police Sagarika Nath mentioned, “We are 100% confident that sensitive information in form of visual images and communication has been transmitted.”
Initial investigation traced the IP handle of the lady handler to Rawalpindi.
In the written criticism, the SI mentioned the leakage or sharing of such secret defence info to the Pakistani agent would possibly trigger critical hurt to nationwide safety, in addition to sovereignty and integrity of India.
Mr. Dey has been booked beneath Section 3,4 and 5 of Official Secret Acts 1923, 34, 120-A and 120-B of IPC. After arrest, he was produced in court docket.
