In a press release, the ATS mentioned, “The UP ATS had received inputs from several confidential sources that the Pakistani spy agency ISI’s handlers had used money to influence some people working at the Foreign Ministry of India to leak top secret information regarding the Indian Army and its strategies. The ATS developed this information and through electronic surveillance and evidence collection, and it was found that Satendra Siwal, a native of the Hapur district of UP, who works at the Foreign Ministry as an MTS (Multi-tasking staff), and is currently posted at the Indian Embassy in Moscow, Russia was involved in this.”

The assertion added, “It was found that he was involved with ISI handlers in anti-India activities. He was providing classified information about the Indian Army and military activities to the ISI handlers in exchange for money. He was called to the ATS office in Meerut where he couldn’t give satisfactory answers about the information sent by him. On further interrogation, he confessed to his crime”.

Satyendra Siwal, whose designation on the Indian Embassy in Russia was India-Based Security Assistant, was arrested beneath Section 121A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Official Secrets Act, 1923. Officials mentioned two cell phones, one Aadhaar card, one PAN card, one identification doc, and Rs 600 in money had been seized from Siwal in the course of the operation.