{"id":304257,"date":"2018-10-17T09:18:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T09:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304257"},"modified":"2018-10-17T09:18:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T09:18:11","slug":"army-soldier-arrested-from-meerut-cantonment-on-charges-of-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/army-soldier-arrested-from-meerut-cantonment-on-charges-of-spying\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Soldier arrested from Meerut cantonment on charges of spying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303991 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/arrest-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/arrest-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/arrest-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/arrest-555x420.jpg 555w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/arrest.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An Indian Army soldier on Wednesday was arrested from Meerut cantonment on the charges of espionage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He is currently being questioned for more information.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The authorities are also trying to ascertain if more people are involved in this espionage racket.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The arrest comes just days after Nishant Agrawal an engineer at the BrahMos production centre near Nagpur was arrested on charges of passing on crucial information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Agarwal was taken from Nagpur to Lucknow, where he was interrogated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Agarwal was arrested in a joint operation by the anti-terrorist squad (ATS) units of Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh from BrahMos&#8217; Wardha Road facility for allegedly leaking technical facets of the medium range supersonic cruise missiles to Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian Army soldier on Wednesday was arrested from Meerut cantonment on the charges of espionage. He is currently being questioned for more information.\u00a0 The authorities are also trying to ascertain if more people are involved in this espionage racket.\u00a0 The arrest comes just days after Nishant Agrawal an engineer at the BrahMos production centre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[5620,5618,5619,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304259,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304257\/revisions\/304259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}