Dikhyaa Mohanty 
The Crime Branch of Odisha Police finds the money trail from Dubai of the espionage case at the DRDO’s ITR facility in Chandipur, along with a role of a women operative as informed by the police officer.
According to the reports, the investigation so far revealed that one of the five accused persons has received cash transfer of Rs 38,000 in two instalments from a bank account in Dubai. We are verifying the financial transactions of the other four persons, Panda said. Details of property of all the five accused and their family members are also being verified.
On September 14, the police nabbed five employees of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Balasore district for allegedly passing vital information from the DRDO establishment to a Pakistani spy in lieu of money. Later the court remanded the five accused to seven days in the custody of the crime branch of the Odisha Police.
After seizing the mobile phones of all the accused people and the cyber cell experts are scanning the social media handles and phones of the accused and their chats with the agents. The telephones and laptops of the accused persons were being sent to a cyber forensic laboratory.
It was later found that during the investigation that a woman operative, who used to contact the accused persons in different names from different places, was using a mobile phone with a SIM of the United Kingdom. The woman used to chat with the five accused through Facebook messenger, Instagram, and Whatsapp.
