Satyendra Siwal, employed as Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) on the Ministry of External Affairs, has been arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorism Squad (UP ATS) on allegations of cooperating with Pakistan’s ISI.

ANI additional reported that Siwal’s posting was on the Indian Embassy in Moscow.

In an official launch, the UP ATS was receiving data from varied confidential sources that handlers of the Pakistani intelligence company ISI have been attempting to govern and entice sure people with hidden identities within the MEA of the Indian authorities.

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“They have been making an attempt to govern and lure staff related to the Indian army by providing cash. Through these covert means, essential, confidential, and restricted data associated to India’s army, strategic, and tactical issues was being obtained, posing a major menace to India’s inside and exterior safety,” the discharge stated.

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The launch additional famous that the officers collected proof by means of digital and bodily surveillance and located that Satendra Sival, son of Jayveer Singh, residing in Shahmahiuddinpur village, Haapur district, Haapur, who’s appointed as MTS within the MEA and at the moment stationed on the Indian Embassy in Moscow, Russia, is concerned in anti-India actions underneath the affect of ISI handlers.

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“He is implicated within the community of ISI handlers, offering essential confidential data associated to the diplomatic and army actions of India, in trade for financial incentives,” it added.

Satendra Sival was summoned to the ATS discipline unit in Meerut as per rules and interrogated, throughout which he admitted to his involvement within the offence after thorough questioning.

Satyendra Siwal has been arrested underneath Section 121A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Official Secrets Act, 1923.

Items seized throughout the operation embody 2 cellphones, 1 Aadhar card, 1 PAN card, 1 identification doc, and INR 600 in money.

(With inputs from ANI)