The IAF’s counter-intelligence wing has detained a senior officer posted at the Air Headquarters here for allegedly leaking classified documents to a woman, among other people, in what is suspected to be an espionage ring being run from Pakistan.
The officer, a group captain (equivalent to a colonel in the Army), was allegedly using his smartphone to click pictures of classified documents at Air Headquarters and then using WhatsApp to transmit them to the woman, whose identity is not yet clear, said sources.
The IAF’s counter-intelligence wing has detained a senior officer posted at the Air Headquarters here for allegedly leaking classified documents to a woman, among other people, in what is suspected to be an espionage ring being run from Pakistan.
The officer, a group captain (equivalent to a colonel in the Army), was allegedly using his smartphone to click pictures of classified documents at Air Headquarters and then using WhatsApp to transmit them to the woman, whose identity is not yet clear, said sources.