Security assistant at Indian Embassy, Moscow, working for Pak ISI nabbed

The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) saysit is aware of arrest, and is coordinating with probe authorities

New Delhi: The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested a person working at the Indian Embassy in Moscow for his alleged involvement in anti-national activities with Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, a special report in The Tribune,  Chandigarh, by Animesh Singh says.

The MEA has said it is aware of the arrest in UP and is working with the investigative authorities in the matter.

The UP ATS has alleged Satendra Siwal, had been working as Security Assistant” in the Moscow mission since 2021,

He was entiiced by ISI handlers to part with important confidential information regarding the strategic activities of the Defence and External Affairs Ministries as well as Indian military establishments.

Siwal has also been described as MTS (multi-tasking staff) and Security Assistant at the Indian Embassy.

Following the tip-off, the UP ATS found through electronic and physical surveillance that motivated by greed, Siwal was passing on sensitive information to the ISI. He had been in service for only six years and the posting to Moscow in 2021 was his first overseas stint.

Siwal was then called to the ATS’ field unit in Hapur on January 26 when he came from Russia on leave and was closely questioned.

Placed under surveillance and told not to leave his home, Siwal was again called for questioning on February 3. After he failed to give satisfactory answers to queries on information he had sent to other sources, he confessed to his crime, claimed the UP ATS.

Siwal is a resident of Shahmahiuddinpur village in the police station area of Hapur district.

A statement by the UP ATS said he was allegedly extracting confidential documents by using his position within the Indian Embassy in Moscow.

In the FIR, Siwal has been booked under Section 121 A (waging war against the country) of the IPC and the Official Secrets Act, 1923, the statement added.

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