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Madhya Pradesh: Virtually Honeytrapped Army Clerk Arrested For Allegedly Supplying Information To Pakistan
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The security agencies have arrested an Army clerk posted in an infantry battalion in Madhya Pradesh’s Mhow cantonment area on Thursday (16 May) for allegedly supplying sensitive information to Pakistan, reports Times Now.
According to the report, the clerk was caught in a joint operation by the Intelligence Bureau (IB), Military Intelligence and police.
The 28-year-old clerk was reportedly sharing secret information of strategic importance through social media platforms like Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram with a woman for a long time, The New Indian Express has reported.
Reports claimed that the clerk had come in the contact with a Pakistan-based Facebook profile of a woman who had posed as an international journalist.
As per the media reports, the two started talking on the social media website and in the process, exchanged details and information about the movement of troops and military exercises via Facebook and Whatsapp.
The social media accounts of the arrested clerk are being investigated and an FIR in the case under relevant sections has been registered in a police station in Bhopal.
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