An Indian Army court martial awarded a jail sentence of over ten years to a soldier caught passing secret information to a Pakistan embassy staffer in the national capital.
The convict was passing information about military activities along the northern borders.
The court martial headed by a woman officer awarded a jail sentence for ten years and ten months to the soldier in the proceedings concluded earlier this week, defence officials told India Today.
The soldier was nabbed for sharing information with a Pakistani spy named Abid Husain alias Naik Abid- a Pakistani national working at the High Commission of Pakistan.
The accused signalman (washerman) was posted in a formation close to the border with China and was supplying secret information to the Pakistani spy posted in their embassy in New Delhi.
The sources said that the activities of the army personnel took place at a crucial time when the northern adversaries were attempting to infiltrate the Line of Actual Control (LAC).
According to Indian Army sources, the soldier had access to only trivial information.
Source: India Today