MEA employee passes on information to Karachi, arrested for espionage

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The Ghaziabad Police have arrested a person working for the Ministry of External Affairs, on charges of espionage..

According to the details, the person, identified as Naveen Pal, was nabbed from the Crossings Republik area after the police received input from the Intelligence Bureau...

The FIR against Naveen Pal mentioned that he had passed on classified information, related to the Ministry of External Affairs documents and the G20 meeting, to a person in Pakistan's Karachi...

The police also found several documents, related to the Ministry of External Affairs and the G20, on Naveen's mobile phone..

Police said the files were saved with the name "secret".. Further, police said they were also looking out for a woman from Rajasthan's Alwar, who had digitally transferred some amount to Naveen's account..

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