Pakistani ‘madamji’ lures MES cleaner to share Army info

GURGAON/LUCKNOW: A civilian employee of the Military Engineering Services (MES), Jaipur was arrested by

Haryana Police

’s special task force (STF) in Rewari for allegedly passing on classified information to a Pakistani military intelligence unit after getting honey-trapped on Facebook.

The STF said it acted on a specific input from military intelligence (MI) to detain Mahesh Kumar (28) from Dharuhera bus stand on Wednesday. Kumar was about to board a bus for Jaipur when he was nabbed. The STF said it had received an alert that Kumar was in touch with a Pakistani intelligence operative and was passing classified information through WhatsApp and Facebook.

Kumar, whose official job description is a cleaner, allegedly took snapshots of classified content in files. He deleted the photos from his phone after sending them to the Pakistani operative, the STF said. Police said Mahesh had received a friend request from an account named

Harman Kour

run by Pakistani intelligence operatives. Kumar used to address her as “madam ji”, police said, adding Kumar had allegedly received money twice — Rs 5,000 each — over the last 5-6 months from his Pakistani handlers via Kerala.