Tribune News Service
New Delhi, February 26
The Army has deepened its probe into an alleged case of spying after a soldier, based at the Northern Command headquarters, was found leaking information to Pakistani operatives.
Northern Command is based at Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir and is dual tasked to face Pakistan and China. Nagrota-based 16 Corps is conducting a court of inquiry and a soldier from Punjab is facing the probe. He will not be the only one facing the probe. The scope of inquiry would cover several others.
Data leak
- The data leak includes deployment specifics, including patrolling routes, military maps, troops’ position and assets along the LoC and LAC
- Nagrota-based 16 Corps is conducting a court of inquiry into it and a soldier from Punjab is facing the probe
The data leak includes deployment specifics, including patrolling routes, military maps, positions of forward troops and location of assets on the Line of Control (LoC) facing Pakistan and also the Line of Actual Control ( LAC) with China.
A tip-off about the activities came from the counter-intelligence arm of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). The court of inquiry would probe how deep he was entrenched with the enemy agencies. Technical details would also be studied as to what method was being used to transfer data. Use of pen drives is disabled on military computers, while external emails do not open.
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