Operation-Cross Connection: On Friday, in an significant counter espionage operation, UP ATS arrested a retired Army soldier, Signalman Saurabh Sharma based on input by Lucknow based Military Intelligence. He was working with Karachi based Pakistani Intel agency since 2016. 
Earlier in Nov 2020 officials of Lucknow MI received inputs indicating involvement Retd Signalman Saurabh Sharma in espionage activities. Input was further developed as "Operation Cross-Connection". The details were shared with UP ATS in early Dec and a joint probe was initiated.
On Friday (8th January) after working on the input for a month UP ATS arrested the suspect Sharma from his parental house in village Bihuni, Hapur, UP. Sharma accepted and confessed to his involvement with the Pakistani intelligence agency.
Sharma revealed that he on Facebook came in touch with the Pakistani Intelligence Operative in 2014 who initially introduced 'herself' as a defence journalist. Subsequently he started sharing several sensitive military information by 2016 in return of money.
Sharma used to share information in form of text, audio and photo messages and also on call mostly using WhatsApp. It is reported that he has received several payments from his handlers. The soldier was discharged from Army in June, 2020 for medical reasons.
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