Odisha: 4 DRDO contractual staffers arrested for passing defence secrets to 'Pakistani' agents

Four Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) contractual staffers have been arrested in Odisha for allegedly passing defence secrets to "Pakistani" agents.

A special squad of Balasore Police in Odisha has arrested four contractual staffers of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on charges of leaking classified defence secrets to foreign agents.

According to reports, all four contractual employees were deployed in manual operational work at the defence installation for quite a while and had regular access to the defence establishment. They were spying on behalf of a neighbouring country and passing crucial information pertaining to the Integrated Test Range, a DRDO unit at Chandipur.