Navy staff arrested for spying for Pakistan, passed secret info during Operation Sindoor, he was receiving payments through...
Vishal Yadav, who worked as a clerk at the Indian Navy's headquarters in Delhi, has been arrested for spying. Police say he passed secret Navy details to Pakistan's spy service, the ISI. Rajasthan's intelligence team had been watching him online for months. They noticed he was in close touch through social media with a woman calling herself 'Priya Sharma.' Investigators believe she is actually an ISI agent. According to the police, she paid Yadav for any sensitive information he could get.
When officers examined his phone, they found years of chats and shared files. Some of these exchanges happened during 'Operation Sindoor,' India's strike on terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir after the Pahalgam attack. Pak spy Vishal Yadav was paid via crypto trades
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