Interview Times A special squad of Balasore Police in Odisha has captured four legally binding staffers of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on charges of spilling classified defence insider facts to foreign agents.
According to reports, all four legally binding employees were sent in manual operational work at the defence installation for quite a while and had customary access to the defence establishment. They were spying on sake of a neighboring country and passing crucial data pertaining to the Integrated Test Range, a DRDO unit at Chandipur.
The four suspects are inhabitants of Jhampura Hata and Nuanai areas in Chandipur of the Balasore district. Balasore Police SP Sudhanshu Mishra said that they had received credible information regarding a few people communicating classified defence secrets to foreign agents, appearing to be ‘Pakistani’ agents.
“They were being contacted from different ISD phone numbers and in exchange, they were getting financial benefits from them. Based on the inputs, multiple police teams were shaped to secure the culprits. Amid the raid, a few implicating materials were recuperated,” Sudhanshu Mishra said. Sources said that one of the accused, Basanta Behera, engaged in Pad III of Prithvi missile centre, was in regular touch with his handler. He has been found calling and receiving ISD calls frequently. The authorities suspected him of transmitting defence-related data to foreign agents around the DRDO’s missile activities.
“Most of his calls were followed to international borders past Rajasthan, taking after which Balasore Police informed state police headquarters about Behera’s suspicious activities,” sources said. Based on this data, six groups comprising of six IICs and six DSPs were shaped to seize the culprits.
Consequently, Behera and three other denounced were secured from their houses close the DRDO door on late Monday night. Earlier, a contractual photographer of Chandipur ITR of Chandipur ITR, Ishwar Behera, was captured and indicted for passing on data related to rocket plan and innovation to Pakistan’s Inter-services Insights (ISI). Right now, he was granted life detainment recently for the offense.
