The Anti-Terror Squad of Uttar Pradesh Police arrested a Junior Works Manager posted at Kanpur Ordnance Factory for allegedly leaking sensitive and classified information to Pakistan’s intelligence agent through social media.
The ATS said Junior Works Manager Kumar Vikas was in touch with a Pakistani agent, and shared confidential information from the Kanpur Ordnance Factory, a report published in The Times of India said.
Additional Director General of Police, ATS, Nilabja Chaudhary said they received inputs that Kumar Vikas was sharing confidential information with the Pakistani agent.
He said Kumar Vikas was in touch with an ISI agent Neha Sharma via Facebook in January 2025. The initial probe suggested that Kumar Vikas is a native of Kanpur Dehat and presently living in the Naramau area under Bithoor police station limits.
Earlier on March 13, the ATs had arrested a man Ravindra Kumar who was sharing different confidential and sensitive information with his Pak ISI handler.
Additional Director General of Police, ATS, Nilabja Chaudhary had said, “ATS UP and their associate agencies got info that there is a person named Ravindra Kumar was sharing different confidential and sensitive information with his Pak ISI handler. So, working on this, our Agra unit did a preliminary interrogation of Ravindra Kumar, and he was called to ATS headquarters for detailed interrogation, where it was proved that he shared very sensitive information through a handler named Neha. This ISI module has been around for a long time. They trap people and extract information from them, which poses a huge threat to national security. So, while interrogating him, we found out that he shared information with the said handler from time to time, which included the daily production report of the said Ordnance Factory (in which he was working) and the receipt of stores, other documents of criminal circulation, the stock that is about to arrive, the requisition, all were shared…Through you, I would request all the sensitive institutions to update their security drills, SOPs, etc., with all the officials of our vital installations and maintain a minimum level of security check on their employees so that such situations can be avoided in future.”
