Delhi police charge Indian Air Force officer over leaked secrets
Investigators say the wing commander exchanged more than 3,000 messages with a woman they suspect was working for Pakistani intelligence.
An Indian Air Force wing commander has been charged in Delhi with passing classified military documents to a woman investigators suspect was working for Pakistani intelligence, in exchange for private photographs, according to a police charge sheet reported by the Indian Express and NDTV.
Delhi Police confirmed the officer was arrested in May and that the charge sheet against him was filed in July, Independent Urdu reported. The Indian Air Force said the officer was kept under surveillance before being handed over to law enforcement agencies.
The charge sheet alleges that the officer offered to send one additional page of a classified document for every private photograph the woman sent him. Delhi Police say the two exchanged more than 3,000 messages between January and April.
Investigators further allege that he passed on information about military drones, the deployment of fighter aircraft and military exercises. The reports describe the woman as Pakistani. Her name has not been made public.
All of these are allegations recorded in the police case. None has been established in court, and the reports do not say whether the woman has been arrested or charged.
Pakistan has not responded to the case, according to Independent Urdu.
Indian outlets have reported comparable cases. In 2022, Rajasthan Police arrested two Indian Army personnel in separate cases and accused them of providing sensitive information to suspected Pakistani agents.
The details come from a charge sheet that Indian reporters have seen and quoted. Independent Urdu's account rests on the Indian Express and NDTV reporting rather than on documents it obtained itself.
The rank of wing commander sits above squadron leader and below group captain in the Indian Air Force. The reports do not say where the officer was posted, which unit he belonged to, or what stage the case has reached since the charge sheet was filed in July.
How the reports differ
UrduPoint led on the framing that the officer is accused of supplying secret information to Pakistan, casting the story as an espionage case against the country. Independent Urdu built its account around the charge sheet's detail that classified pages were offered in exchange for private photographs, and it alone cited the more than 3,000 messages sent between January and April and named the Indian Express and NDTV as the origin of the charge-sheet reporting. Independent Urdu also carried the Indian Air Force's statement that the officer was under surveillance before being handed to investigators, and the 2022 Rajasthan arrests of two army personnel as precedent.
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