A man, Mohammad Parvez, suspected of spying for the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was arrested for allegedly threatening to upload a woman Army officer’s morphed objectionable images on the Internet.
The woman, a Colonel-rank officer, is a resident of south-west Dwarka first approached the local police where she said she had been receiving some of her own objectionable pictures from a particular Facebook account with the name of one Ikta Sharma. In her complaint, she also alleged that she was receiving calls from two unknown numbers.
Trap for other officers
The probe revealed that other senior-rank Army personnel were also sent requests from this Facebook profile to lure them.
These pictures, she purportedly said, were morphed and that she was threatened that if she did not entertain the requests, and tried to disconnect, her pictures would be uploaded on the Internet.
Even when she stopped receiving calls, they allegedly contacted her daughter. Following the complaint, technical surveillance was set up and the police’s special cell zeroed in on the accused, who was arrested following a raid in north Delhi’s Chandni Mahal area on Monday.
Confidential information
Mr. Parvez purportedly admitted that he was an ISI agent and was tasked with gathering confidential information about India’s strategic defence deployment from the officer. The police are on the lookout for three of his other accomplices.
