LUCKNOW: The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) revealed that the arrested Border Security Force (BSF) jawan had initiated communication with the alleged woman
journalist on
Facebook and had also sent her a friend request. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Intelligence Bureau (IB) are also questioning the arrested BSF jawan Achutan Mishra.
The ATS had arrested Mishra from Noida for sharing classified details — like photographs of the 3D model of a BSF academy and arms and ammunition available therein — with a woman, who claimed to be a defence reporter. The
WhatsApp ID with which the jawan was interacting was found to be a handle based in
Pakistan. During probe it has surfaced that Mishra was moved by the woman journalist after he got a like on his photograph by her. Mishra was so elated that he sent her a friend request. “January 2016 was the beginning of their camaraderie and a couple of months later it blossomed. By November it had peaked,” said ATS officials.
Later, Mishra started sending her messages of “will talk during night”, “send your pictures”, “I eagerly wait for you to come online,” said the officials, sharing the chats between them over Facebook.
IG (ATS) Asim Arun said that they got intimate and later Mishra also started videochatting over WhatsApp with her. “We are probing about Mishra’s friends who probably could also have chatted with the woman journalist. We are also probing Mishra’s bank account details to look into the transactions made by him over last couple of years,” said Arun.
He added that Mishra was a drug addict and used to work as a farmer before joining the
services in 2006. He had twice failed in the high school examinations and then finally passed through private board in 2000. His father also retired from the same post in BSF while his brother works with the Madhya Pradesh police.
Achutan Mishra
