A soldier allegedly takes Rs 15k to pass on secret info to Pakistan's ISI, Army to court martial accused

An Indian army soldier was caught selling secret information to an ISI spy linked to Pakistan, according to a report in ANI.

The accused named Alim Khan was caught passing the information on the India-China border to the ISI agent. "The accused Signalman (washerman) Alim Khan was posted in a formation close to the border with China in the field area and was allegedly caught supplying secret information to the Pakistani spy posted in their embassy in New Delhi. The summary court-martial proceedings against the soldier will begin in the next couple of days," the news agency quoted the defence sources as saying.

The report says that the soldier was caught passing on the information to Pakistani spy Abid Husain alias Naik Abid, a Pakistani national working at its embassy in New Delhi. He was paid Rs 15,000 for providing the information.

The soldier provided the information when northern adversaries were attempting to get aggressive on the Line of Actual Control and even the slightest of information could have been helpful for the adversaries, ANI reported.

The Army sources have told the news agency that the soldier passed on only trivial information only and it practises zero tolerance to such acts and the guilty would get exemplary punishment.

The soldier has provided the list of documents that also contain the guard duty list of the formation where he was deployed along with the activities of his own formations and the vehicles of the formation along with the list of movement of vehicles in view of the covid lockdown. It is reported that the soldier was trying to get access to the location of the satellites monitoring the China border but could not succeed, the sources added. He was also trying to access the surveillance radar and other similar equipment locations on the China border.

This is not the first instance of a soldier caught in such acts. Of late, there have been cases where soldiers were honey-trapped and blackmailed to extract information. In this case, there was no honey-trapping or blackmailing.