In July 2021, as rains lashed Secunderabad, Telangana, a bored Major K opened his Facebook. The infantry officer serving his peace posting at the city’s military station was greeted by a message from Prisha Agrawal. He didn’t know her but was intrigued and promptly got chatting. Prisha said she was a disaster management official in Madhya Pradesh and was looking to help retired armymen find scholarships for their children and grandchildren. Could the major assist her in this endeavour, she asked? By the next month, the major and Prisha were friends, chatting and video calling over WhatsApp. And not long after they were sexting as well.
It wasn’t until about a year later that the major found out Prisha was not who she said she was. She was a suspected Pakistani spy out to retrieve confidential information from him.
