A court in Lucknow on Feb. 5 sent an Indian embassy staffer arrested for allegedly spying for Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI to judicial custody till February 7.
The Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of the Uttar Pradesh Police on Sunday said it arrested Satendra Siwal, a resident of the state’s Hapur district, in Lucknow after questioning as he could not give satisfactory answers and confessed his crime.
Mr. Siwal has been working as an IBSA (India-Based Security Assistant) in the Indian embassy in Moscow since 2021.