NEW DELHI: A Special Cell of the Delhi Police on Friday arrested Indian AirForce Officer Arun Marwah for allegedly spying for Pakistan’sInter-Services Intelligence ISI. A Group Captain, the IAF officer wasarrested on charges of leaking classified details and documents of Indianoperations to Pakistan.
The officer was honey-trap into sharing the top-secret details.
The 51-year-old IAF officer, due to retire next month, used to trainMARCOS, Garud and Para-Commandos. His son is an IAF fighter pilot.
Marwah was reportedly very active on social media, particularly onFacebook, where would upload videos and pictures of himself regularly.
Six months back he received two friend requests on Facebook, sourcestold Zee Media. Marwah readily accepted the requests.
What the IAF officer didn’t know at the time that who had prepared two fakeprofiles of Kiran Randhawa and Mahima Patel. The users had images ofglamorous fashion models.
Initially, the chats were limited to comments and likes.
Soon, the chats grew explicit in nature, with the agents using videos tolure Marwah. Proxy servers and VoIP were used to mask their digitalfootprint, started saving the chats.
Three months ago, they agents digitally honeytrapped and threatened to makethe chats public.
Instead of informing authorities, Marwah succumbed to their demands. Inmid-January, the IAF officer shared top-secret documents related to DefenceCyber Agency, Defence Space Agency and Special Operations with the agencyon WhatsApp.
“An IAF officer was arrested on the basis on a complaint by Indian AirForce authorities. The allegation is that IAF officer Arun Marwah leakedsensitive documents. It looks like a matter of honey-trap. An investigationis currently going on,” said DCP Pramod Kushwaha.
Marwah has now confessed to leaking documents in front of special cellofficers and IAF officers, sources told Zee.