UPDATE: July 12, 2023, 04:42 PM IST
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An official of the Finance Ministry has been arrested… MoreAn official of the Finance Ministry has been arrested on charges of espionage. It is barely a month since senior DRDO scientist Pradeep Kurulkar was arrested by the authorities on charges of espionage. Naveen Pal, an employee of the Finance Ministry, was arrested on Tuesday from Crossing Republik in Ghaziabad on IB input. According to the report, in the first information report, Naveen Pal has been accused of sharing classified information about the Ministry of Finance and G20 meetings with a person in Karachi, Pakistan. Preliminary investigation has revealed that Naveen Pal used WhatsApp to send information to his handler in Pakistan and may have been honeytrapped.