DRDO Guest House Manager Held for Spying for ISI
He was allegedly providing confidential information on the movement of DRDO scientists and Indian Army officers visiting the range for missile and weapons testing to handlers in Pakistan
Jaipur: Mahendra Prasad, a contractual manager of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Guest House near Chandan Field Firing Range in Jaisalmer, was arrested on Tuesday by Rajasthan's CID Intelligence on charges of spying for the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI and sending confidential and strategic information across the border.
Prasad will be presented in court on Wednesday, where he will be taken on remand for further interrogation.
Inspector General of Police CID (Security), Rajasthan, Jaipur, Dr. Vishnukant, said that ahead of the upcoming state-level Independence Day celebrations, Rajasthan CID Intelligence is closely monitoring possible anti-national and subversive activities carried out by foreign agents in the state.
During surveillance, officials learnt that Mahendra Prasad, a resident of Palyun, Almora, Uttarakhand, and working as a contractual manager at DRDO Guest House Chandan Field Firing Range Jaisalmer, was in contact with Pakistani intelligence through social media. He was allegedly providing confidential information on the movement of DRDO scientists and Indian Army officers visiting the range for missile and weapons testing to handlers in Pakistan.
The suspect was jointly interrogated by various intelligence agencies at the Central Interrogation Centre in Jaipur, and his mobile phone was forensically examined. Officials found he had been supplying sensitive DRDO and Army-related information to Pakistani handlers.
A case was registered against Mahendra Prasad, son of Chaniram, age 32, on August 12 under the Official Secrets Act, 1923. He was arrested by CID Intelligence, Rajasthan, on charges of espionage.
