In a shocking development, the UP-ATS has arrested an employee of the Indian Embassy in Moscow for allegedly spying for Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI. According to an NDTV report on February 4, the arrested individual, identified as Satendra Siwal, was arrested in Meerut.
Siwal was working as a Multi-Tasking Staff (MTS) in the Ministry of External Affairs. A resident of Shahmahiuddinpur village in Hapur, Siwal was identified as a key player in this espionage network. He was allegedly extracting confidential documents by exploiting his position within the Indian Embassy in Moscow. The accused, motivated by greed for money, allegedly passed critical information concerning the strategic activities of the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of External Affairs, and Indian military establishments to ISI handlers.
The report added that the operation unfolded as ATS received intelligence from confidential sources suggesting that ISI handlers were luring Indian Ministry of External Affairs employees, offering financial incentives in exchange for sensitive information related to the Indian Army. The information being exchanged posed a grave threat to India’s internal and external security, the agency said.
An FIR has been registered against Siwal under sections of waging war against the country and also under sections of the Official Secrets Act. The Ministry of External Affairs said that it is aware of Satendra Siwal’s arrest and is working with the investigative authorities in the case, the NDTV report said.
It is time the Ministry trained its staff members and kept a close eye on them to save the country from such disgrace.
Rana Qadri
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Reading Skills should Improve
It was disappointing to read about how over 25 percent youngsters in the age group of 14-18 years enrolled in educational institutions cannot even read a Class-2 textbook fluently. This reflects pretty poorly on the standard of education in our country and the teaching procedures adopted in schools.
An in-depth study should be conducted to find out why students are so poor in reading and language skills. In the modern world, good communication skills are absolutely essential for any student to carve out a niche for himself or herself in society. One wonders how such students are going to be future assets of the country if they cannot even read a primary school textbook.
Bhavna Kumar
Bengaluru, Karnataka
BJP Ideology won’t succeed in Tamil Nadu
DMK youth wing leader and Minister for youth development, Udhayanidhi Stalin recently said that the BJP’sideology was trying to gain afoothold in Tamil Nadu for thelast two thousand years and it
could not succeed. Even if theBJP tried to do the same for another two thousand years,they would not succeed, he asserted.
“Language is not only our right but our language Tamil is our life. If you try to destroy Tamil, ouryouth are ready to give their lives to protect it,” he said. The DMK’s policy is that the union government needs to have the Foreign Affairs and Defencedepartment with it but they have taken the state government’s powers in education and health, he said the BJP could not threaten with ED, CBI, IT, etc.
Chowdhry Nisar Ahmed
Noorullah pet, Ambur (T.N)