A 27-year-old mechanical engineer from Thane, a city in Maharashtra, India was arrested by Maharashtra’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) for leaking sensitive information about Indian warships and submarines to a Pakistani intelligence operative.
The accused used sketches, diagrams, and audio recordings to share classified details and received payments from multiple bank accounts in India and abroad.
The police investigation revealed that the engineer, employed as a junior engineer at a defence technology company, had authorised access to the Naval Dockyard in South Mumbai. During his work, he boarded various naval ships and submarines.
Since mobile phones were prohibited inside the dockyard, he made sketches and diagrams of the sensitive information, sometimes sending audio notes to communicate the details.
The ATS found that the engineer had been in contact since late 2024 with Pakistani agents who posed as Indian women on Facebook. Using fake profiles, the operatives initially pretended to be Indian citizens involved in a project
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