{"id":500864,"date":"2024-02-04T16:13:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T10:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=500864"},"modified":"2024-02-04T16:17:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T10:47:56","slug":"pakistan-isi-indian-embassy-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/pakistan-isi-indian-embassy-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Embassy employee in Moscow arrested for allegedly spying for Pakistan\u2019s ISI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) arrested Satendra Siwal (27) from Hapur on Sunday. He has been accused of sharing classified information with the Pakistan-based Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Additional director general of ATS, Mohit Agarwal, told the media that Satendra was posted as multi-tasking staff member at the Indian embassy in Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He allegedly spied for the ISI and passed on important information to his handlers across the border. Agarwal said he was under surveillance for the past six months and was arrested upon his return to Hapur after taking leave from the embassy in Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Satyendra Siwal working as MTS (Multi-Tasking, Staff) at the Ministry of External Affairs, has been arrested by UP ATS. He is accused of working for ISI. Satyendra was posted at the Indian Embassy in Moscow. He is originally a resident of Hapur: UP ATS <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BY4ueim0KU\">pic.twitter.com\/BY4ueim0KU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1754029960728342774?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The ATS chief added that Satendra had been working at the Indian Embassy in Moscow since 2021 as an India based Security Assistant (IBSA). Agarwal further added that Satendra is accused of sharing classified information related to the army establishment and documents pertaining to the embassy\u2019s foreign office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ATS chief said they are scanning his bank accounts and have seized his mobile phone to gather more details about his associates. It stated further that Siwal was called to the ATS field unit in Meerut and confessed to his crime in the face of questioning. An FIR was registered in the matter under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ATS said in a statement the UP ATS had received inputs from several confidential sources that the Pakistani spy agency ISI\u2019s handlers had used money to influence some people working at the Foreign Ministry of India to leak top secret information regarding the Indian army and its strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ATS developed this information and through electronic surveillance and evidence collection, and it was found that Satendra Siwal, a native of the Hapur district of UP, who works at the Foreign Ministry as an MTS (Multi-tasking staff), and is currently posted at the Indian Embassy was involved in this. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ATS chief added that Satendra had been working at the Indian Embassy in Moscow since 2021 as an India based Security Assistant (IBSA). Agarwal further added that Satendra is accused of sharing classified information related to the army establishment and documents pertaining to the embassy\u2019s foreign office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":500866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Indian Embassy employee in Moscow arrested for allegedly spying for Pakistan\u2019s ISI","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497],"tags":[6593,5078,107028],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/02\/04161158\/ISI.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500864"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=500864"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=500864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->