Western Command Information Leak Sparks Army Probe

The army is looking into the possible leak of secret information from the Western Command Headquarters in Chandimandir. This comes after the Punjab Police arrested an Army jawan last week for giving secret papers to Pakistan’s ISI with the help of a suspected drug smuggler.

Sepoy Manpreet Sharma, a member of the Army Service Corps, was picked up by Patiala Police in Bhopal, where he was stationed in a Strike Corps. In a war with Pakistan, the Strike Corps plays a key attacking role against Pakistan. Sources with a lot of power say that the jawan used to work at Western Command and had access to computers. Over time, he gathered secret information and gave it to Amrik Singh, who is accused of smuggling drugs.

Together with the Patiala Police, the Army is looking into what kind of information was released and how the jawan got access to it.

Sources say that at the Western Command Headquarters, a cyber and physical audit of all secret presentations and documents kept on computers and in the form of compact discs and pen drives has been done over the past few days. A lot of cops were also asked questions. It is also known that the Army Headquarters in New Delhi has asked the Western Command for a report.

The Patiala SSP Varun Sharma, whose team found this spy-smuggling network, the Army soldier had already spent some time in Kaithal Jail after a FIR was filed against him for a different disagreement. It is thought that he met some crooks here who then put him in touch with Amrik Singh. It is now being looked into whether or not the Army knew about the soldier’s time in jail.

“We had arrested Amrik Singh on a drug charge, and we did a forensics probe on his cell phone, which had a lot of secret and sensitive Army information on it. “When we questioned him, he admitted that he had talked to Sepoy Manpreet Sharma, who gave him the information,” the SSP said. He said that Amrik was talking to an ISI agent named Sher Khan, and that Amrik was giving secret information to Sher Khan. “We have Amrik and the Army soldier in police custody and are questioning them,” the SSP said.

In response to a question, Western Command officials said they were looking into the facts of the information that had been leaked. They denied that the charged person worked in the Operations Room of the Command HQ. “The jawan wasn’t working in the Ops Room; he was working in one of the Command HQ branches,” the Command said in response to a question.