NIA has arrested another person in the case of espionage of Navy employees that came to light in Visakha Naval Dock Yard. This brings the number of arrests in this case to three. The National Investigation Agency arrested the accused in Mumbai on Monday.
As part of the investigation into the case, Aman Salim Sheikh was nabbed after raids conducted by the NSIA on Monday at two locations in Mumbai and Hojai in Assam’s Nagaon district.
On Monday, NSIA teams recovered two mobile phones from the place where Aman was arrested, and two more phones and important documents were recovered from other areas during the search.
Investigation agencies found that Akash Solanki (21) from Uttar Pradesh, who was working as an Electrical Artificer Radio Apprentice at the Visakha Naval Dock Yard, was providing secret information about warships and submarines of the Indian Navy to Pakistan’s ISI spy network.
This affair, which came to light in 2021, created a sensation across the country. Although a case was initially registered by the counter-intelligence cell in Vijayawada, due to the seriousness of the case, it was transferred to the NIA. When the NSIA conducted an investigation into this affair, it was found that a Pakistani national, Mir Balaz Khan, had received money through a crypto channel for providing information from Akash Solanki.