Sharing of SIM Cards & OTPs with Pak intelligence: 2 aides of mastermind detained

Bhubaneswar: In the latest enchancment, the Special Task Force (STF) on Sunday have detained two aides of the mastermind ITI teacher Pathanisamant Lenka who procured giant numbers of SIM enjoying playing cards and sharing one-time passwords (OTP) with Pakistani Intelligence Operatives (PIO) and ISI brokers in Pakistan along with in India.

The Special Task drive have picked the accused from Jajpur district on bills of being a terrorist. The accused mobiles may be despatched to the forensic lab for additional investigation.

The officers of the STF have despatched all information referring to the case to National Investigative Agency (NIA) and Intelligence Bureau (IB). If required IT specialists will look at the social media handles.

The mastermind Lenka may be launched into remand on Monday. The STF had approached the courtroom docket for 5-day remand of Pathanisamanta Lenka. He had contacts with Pakistani ISI brokers in Delhi, Rajasthan, Gujarat and West-Bengal. During probe the STF have gotten shocking information referring to this case.

The accused fraudulently procuring giant numbers of SIMs in numerous’s names and selling the OTPs to quite a few purchasers along with some PIO and ISI brokers in Pakistan and India. In return, they could be paid by some Pakistani brokers primarily based in India. They have been moreover involved with a female PIO agent who was arrested remaining 12 months in an Official Secrets Act and Honey-Trap case in Rajasthan,” STF talked about in an announcement.

These OTPs have been then used to create various accounts and channels on social media like Whatsapp, Telegram, Facebook and Instagram and likewise on on-line buying web sites like Amazon and Flipkart. These are moreover utilized in opening electronic message accounts. People will suppose that these accounts are owned by an Indian nonetheless actually operated from Pakistan.

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