NEW DELHI – Indian army has issued an advisory instructing its personnel toexercise extreme caution while befriending strangers on the Internet.
It has told soldiers and officers to be especially wary of thoseidentifying themselves as spiritual leaders or women of foreign origin,laying specific emphasis on not divulging any sensitive information.
These instructions come at a time when a soldier has been taken intocustody in Jodhpur on charges of selling confidential information to aPakistani woman agent through social media. A colleague detained along withhim was later freed for lack of evidence.
The advisory issued last month indicated that Pakistani agents under fakeidentities were actively trying to target soldiers deployed in sensitiveareas. The army, it said, has identified around 150 such profiles until now.
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A source said that Pakistani agents target army personnel on social mediain order to procure contact numbers of senior officers and gatherinformation on deployment patterns, news agency PTI quoted an official assaying.
