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Army Jawans held with ISI link

One jawan is from Madhya Pradesh, the other is from Assam and both were honeytrapped by the premier intelligence service official from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).

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Army Jawans held with ISI link

Army Jawan of Indian Army Vichitra Vehera was held last night at Jodhpur for passing sensitive information to ISI Pakistan and authorities suspected that he was honey-trapped by ISI.

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Vichitra was posted at Pokharan was regularly supplying information about army deployment to Pakistan through Whatsapp and facebook.

Along with him another jawan from Madhya Pradesh was also arrested.

The two soldiers were identified as Lance Nayak Ravi Verma and soldier Vichitra Bora.

Both of them were posted in Pokhran and were brought toJaipur on Tuesday night from Jodhpur.

The two accused were taken to Jaipur from Jodhpur where they are being interrogated. Women with Punjabi access contacted them with WhatsApp.

The woman had a Punjabi accent and was calling using voiceover internet protocol (VoIP) service from Pakistan number which was reflectedas Indian number on the soldier's screen.

As such, they took her to be an Indian and shared crucial information on army deployment in Rajasthan, army equipment and other crucial details.

Rajasthan Additional Director General Umesh Mishra confirmed that the preliminary investigation shows the two soldiers have been honey-trapped.