NEW DELHI – A group captain of the Indian Air Force – equivalent to a Colonel of the Indian Army – has been detained on espionage charges, according to Indian media reports.
The officer, who was posted in New Delhi, is now being questioned for possible spying for Pakistan, India Today newspaper reported on Thursday.
The officer was first detected by IAF’s Intelligence, the paper claimed quoting “top government sources”, after he was suspected to have passed “critical information,” over the last few months.
Initial investigations suggest that officer was honey trapped and was being blackmailed. The identity of the woman who lured the officer isn’t clear yet.
The Indian Air Force refused to comment officially.
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The arrest comes amid a report of Indian magazine Frontline – that is published by publishers of the well-known newspaper The Hindu – confirmed that Kulbushan Jadhav’s arrest and conviction by the Pakistan Army has underlined the need for New Delhi to review its policies.
Kulbhushan Jadhav, an Indian navy commander in the service of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the top Indian spy Agency, was arrested in 2016 from Balochistan.
In a subsequent video, he had confessed that RAW was sponsoring terrorism in Pakistan. He was sentenced to death by a court after a trial. India has moved International Court of Justice against Jadhav’s sentencing.
