Journalist Rajeev Sharma Arrested | Narendra Modi won Ig Nobel prize ? | Piyush Rai
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Date: 20/09/2020

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https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/arrested-scribe-rajeev-sharma-was-passing-info-on-border-strategy-to-chinese-intelligence-police/article32648112.ece

The Hindu : Arrested Delhi journalist Rajeev Sharma was passing info to the Chinese. A Chinese woman and a Nepalese man have also been arrested. The nature of information shared with the Chinese is not clear.
Days after freelance journalist Rajeev Sharma was arrested by Delhi Police under the British-era Official Secrets Act (OSA) for allegedly passing on “sensitive information” to Chinese intelligence, police said on Saturday that two of his associates including a Chinese woman and a Nepalese man have also been arrested.

So far, an officer said, the role of any Ministry of Defence officials is not under the scanner. Agencies are trying to establish how Mr. Sharma accessed the sensitive information. The nature of information shared with the Chinese was also not clear.

Mr. Sharma, 61, a political commentator and strategic analyst from Delhi has earlier worked with The Tribune newspaper and was also associated with the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), a think tank whose founding director is National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval. Following his arrest, a webpage linking his work to the VIF has been removed.

However, a February 22, 2010 archived news analysis by Mr. Sharma on the online portal, rediff.com says the “writer is chief editor and senior fellow with the New Delhi based thinktank Vivekananda International Foundation.” Mr. Sharma, a journalist accredited by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) was arrested on September 14. The PIB accreditation is provided after multiple layer of security checks and is renewed annually.

On the day of his arrest, he posted on his LinkedIn page that, “Despite the five-point peace plan reached between #india and #china in #moscow last week, China can still do mischief and the only mantra for India in dealing with the #chinese must be: distrust and verify.” 

India and China are engaged in a tense border standoff since April-May in eastern Ladakh.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Sanjeev Yadav said on Saturday that the other two accused have been identified as Qing Shi and Sher Singh alias Raj Bohra, a native of Nepal, who were allegedly supplying money to Mr. Sharma, routed through hawala channels for sharing sensitive information to Chinese intelligence.Police said they had received an input from an intelligence agency that Mr. Sharma, resident of Pitampura, was having links with foreign intelligence officer and had been receiving money through illegal means and Western Union Money Transfer following which a case under sections of the OSA was registered on September 13 and Mr. Sharma was arrested the next day. “Laptop, confidential documents related to Indian Defence department and other incriminating documents were recovered,” Mr. Yadav said.