New Delhi, May 31: A Delhi Court on Monday remanded a Navy mechanic who was arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan to 14 days judicial custody.
Chand Kumar Prasad was produced after five-day custodial interrogation before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kaveri Baweja. He was sent to judicial custody till June 13.
The accused, who was posted in the Navy’s Aircraft Maintenance Unit in Mumbai, was arrested by Delhi Police’s Special Cell from New Delhi Railway Station on May 26.
Arrested under Official Secrets Act, he was allegedly passing on classified information and “secret and sensitive” documents like photographs of Hindan Air Base and map of Meerut Cantonment to a Pakistan High Commission official through another person.
Prasad, 24, a Naval Air Mechanic-I is a resident of Chhapra district of Bihar and was posted at Naval air base INS Shikra in Mumbai. He was in the service for around four years.
INS Shikra is Navy’s only helicopter base, from where it operates its Sea King, Kamov 28, Kamov 31 and Chetak helicopters used during the 26/11 attacks by NSG commandos against terrorists in Nariman House.
-PTI