Maharashtra ats: The Maharashtra ATS, who was investigating the case of spying for Pakistan while living in India, found out that the women agents of the Pakistan Intelligence Operative (PIO), who worked under the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, used Indian SIM card to implicate the accused Ravi Verma in the honey trap.

Sources claimed that the investigation revealed that the women agents of PIO deliberately used the Indian SIM card so that Ravi Verma and Indian security agencies could not feel that the talks are going on with Pakistan. Women agents, describing themselves as an Indian citizen, contacted Verma and seduced him and asked her to get sensitive defense information, photos and videos like Warship and Submarine.

Pak agents used Indian numbers
According to ATS sources, the 5-6 mobile numbers that were contacted to the accused are all Indian SIM cards. It is not yet clear who and how this SIM card should be provided to Pakistani agents. In this episode, the ATS has intensified the investigation. Sources further stated that, in the initial investigation, there have been strong indications that Pak agents used Ravi Verma in Honey Trap using Indian numbers. Following this revelation, the ATS has also issued a public advisory, appealing to citizens not to take messages or calls coming from unknown Indian numbers and foreign numbers seriously and do not respond to them. Also, give information about any such suspicious calls or messages immediately to the police.

Indian SIMs are targeting through cards
Sources further stated that this is not a single case. Investigation has revealed that PIO agents are targeting not only Ravi Verma, but also many people in different parts of India through Indian SIM cards. This is his new modus operandi, which has come out after the Pahalgam attack.

A person involved in providing Indian SIM card
Meanwhile, the Special Cell of Delhi Police arrested a person named Hasan on Tuesday (June 3), who was involved in providing Indian SIM cards to Pakistani agents. Now Maharashtra ATS is in constant contact with the Delhi Police to find out whether any link to Hasan is connected to the Ravi Verma case. Sources said that the investigation has also revealed that between November 2024 to March 2025, Ravi Verma gave around Rs 9,000 in exchange for sharing intelligence from Pakistani agents. These money were transferred from dead account to different bank accounts, whose analysis is still going on.

Maharashtra ats news: A 27 -year -old Indian youth has been arrested on the basis of secret information received by Maharashtra ATS, who was allegedly in contact with Pakistan’s intelligence agency Pakistan Intelligence Operative (Pio) and he shared information related to the defect list of a warship which is a sensitive and confidential information banned by the Government of India.

The name of the arrested accused is Ravindra Muralidhar Verma, who is a resident of Kalwa area of ​​Thane. He is a mechanical engineer. According to Maharashtra ATS, during investigation, it was found that Verma came in contact with a Pakistani intelligence agent through Facebook in November 2021. After this, between November 2021 and May 2023, he sent information related to the Defect list of the Warship which is confidential and sensitive regional information through WhatsApp.

Case registered against accused Verma and 2 others

The ATS has registered a case against Verma and two other people in contact with him. Thane ATS unit has registered a case against all of them under Section 3 (1) (a), 5 (1) and Section 61 (2) of the Indian Code.

Share information related to the defect list of Warship

Sources said that Verma used to work for the Chrisne Defense Technology Limited Company and the Naval Dock used to support some warships related to this company. Verma also had a pass to go to the prohibited (restricted) area, with the help of which he could also go there. Sources said that Verma had a defect list of some warships from which he shared the information related to it, besides Verma also gave sensitive information related to the Waraship to the PIO.

Accused in ATS custody till 2 June

In this case, ATS is extracting Verma’s electronic gadget and its chats to gather complete information about what kind of information he has given to the operatives of Pio. Verma was produced in court on Thursday (May 29), where ATS has been sent to custody till Monday.