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Yash Goyal
Jaipur, November 6

In an alleged honeytrap case, intelligence and police agencies on Wednesday arrested an army soldier posted on the international border in Jaisalmer district for passing on confidential defence information via Facebook and WhatsApp to a woman agent of Pakistan’s ISI.

Vichitra Behera who hailed from Odisha was under the lens of intelligence agencies for sharing secret official information, movement of army and exercise location in Pokhran with his woman friend, Additional Director General (Intelligence) of Police Umesh Mishra said in a statement.

Behera was getting cash payment for providing such dossiers to the woman and got it transferred into his bank account, Mishra added.

CID (Intelligence) was also following the ADG-Intelligence instructions to investigate the case against the soldier.

Another soldier, hailing from Madhya Pradesh, was detained yesterday and is being interrogated. Both were honeytrapped by Pakistani women.

In January this year, jawan Sombir, a victim of honeytrap, was arrested at Jaislamer military station for sending confidential information across the border.