Odisha Police finds involvement of one other lady in DRDO espionage case
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By PTI
Bhubaneswar: In a brand new twist to the DRDO Integrated Test Range (ITR) espionage case, Odisha Police Saturday stated it has discovered the involvement of one other lady.
Additional director basic of crime department, Sanjeev Panda stated that in investigation it got here to the fore that one other lady primarily based in Mumbai was additionally in contact with one of many accused in reference to the espionage case.
The lady had allegedly developed acquaintance with him by claiming that she belonged to Balasore, the native district of the accused.
It is, nevertheless, not clear whether or not she was the identical lady who had honey-trapped the 5 accused and allegedly extracted info from them, the ADG stated.
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The second lady advised the accused person who she hails from Balasore and works in Dubai.
She additionally requested him to offer her Rs 40,000 and promised to return the sum.
The accused had deposited the quantity in two installments on April 18 this 12 months in two completely different financial institution accounts in Mumbai.
The similar quantity was deposited within the SBI account of the accused on the financial institution’s Chandipur department on April 19, Panda stated.
He stated a criminal offense department group of Odisha Police will quickly go to Mumbai for additional investigation into the suspicious monetary transactions of the accused.
On September 13 and September 15, the police had arrested the 5 accused individuals working on the ITR in Chandipur on the cost of getting hyperlinks with a overseas agent and supplying credible info to enemies.
Earlier, it had discovered the involvement of a feminine operative, suspected to be from Pakistan, within the espionage case.
The police had confirmed that this lady had despatched Rs 38000 to one of many accused from a financial institution in Dubai in two tranches for info on the ITR, from the place defence missiles are take a look at launched.
She had used a London SIM card to name the accused individuals from Islamabad below completely different names.
