New Delhi, November 28: Foreign intelligence agencies are making regular attempts to establish bases in the country and influence
people to form a network of their agents, the Government has
admitted.
Minister of State for Home Affairs Ajay Maken here said,
”Government is alive to the fact that foreign intelligence
agencies are making efforts to function in India.”
But to stonewall the efforts of hostile agencies, the Government
has put in place a robust mechanism for exchange of information
and liaison with friendly nations on counter-terrorism through
Ministries of External Affairs and Home Affairs, Mr Maken
informed.
The Government’s admission comes nearly seven months after
Madhuri Gupta, an IFS-Group B officer posted in the Indian High
Commission in Islamabad, was arrested on the charges of working
for the Pakistani intelligence.
Mr Maken said, ”The Government is constantly monitoring
activities of the hostile agencies to subvert individuals and
create agents of influence in different institutions both in the
public and private domain and has been taking action to neutralise
the same wherever necessary.”
Asked about reports of moles in the administrative set-up acting
on behest of such agencies, he said, ”Hostile activity is being
constantly monitored and countered by the agencies concerned.”
Notably, Home Ministry mole Ravi Inder Singh was also arrested
last week for allegedly passing on sensitive information to
corporate bodies. He is in six-day police custody now.
He was posted as Director in the Internal Security division of
the Ministry and had allegedly leaked information to a telecom
company for illegal gratification.
–Agencies