The Crime Branch, which is probing espionage racket at Chandipur DRDO wing, on Wednesday made some disclosures regarding honey-trap angle in case. Sources said Crime Branch, now interrogating the five arrested employees of missile testing station under remand, had evidence that a mysterious agent, apparently a woman, was behind spy racket.The woman operative had been in contact with all five arrested staffs of Integrated Test Range (ITR) with different identities and names since February 2020 and is suspected to have extracted sensitive defence secrets from them.She claimed herself as a resident of United Kingdom’s Liverpool to one of accused. To another, she said she was a native of Rajasthan. The operative even identified herself to one of the DRDO staffs while to another she told that she was a nurse.
She used to get in touch with all accused through WhatsApp video calling, Facebook calling and messenger. She conversed in English and Hindi from a United Kingdom-based telephone number.The woman had even promised some accused to marry them, said Crime Branch sources.The Crime Branch is trying to trace source of UK number, through which woman was communicating with five accused, by contacting UK authorities with help of India’s Central investigative agencies.