Soldier ‘honey-trapped by Pakistan woman’ arrested

NEW DELHI: An Army soldier posted with an infantry battalion at Mhow in Madhya Pradesh was arrested on Wednesday night for allegedly supplying information to Pakistan, in what could be yet another honey-trap case to hit the armed forces.

Defence sources on Thursday said the accused, a 26-year-old havildar posted as a clerk with the infantry battalion, was arrested in a joint operation conducted by the intelligence bureau, military intelligence and local police at Mhow.

“The clerk was under surveillance for some time before he was arrested. It seems he was digitally honey-trapped into passing information to a woman in Pakistan, who he had met on Facebook. Further investigations are in progress,” said a source.


There are strict directives in the armed forces to ensure classified information and data is not compromised through the improper use of internet or social networking websites like Facebook, Orkut and Twitter.

But there have been several such cases in recent years. Some military personnel have also been caught in honey-traps — basically an intelligence operation for first seducing and then blackmailing a person into divulging confidential information — either in the real or the virtual world.