The Booby Trap


For secret- agents or for security personnel on mission, wine, women and wealth are considered the ever worst booby-traps. During their professional training, they are strictly forbidden to have any relationship with wine, woman and wealth in any particularly when they are on some very sensitive assignment.

by Ali Sukhanver

Have you ever heard of booby traps? It is in fact a setup that is installed to kill or harm an animal or a human being by luring it. Bait is also a word used as substitute to this term. For secret- agents or for security personnel on mission, wine, women and wealth are considered the ever worst booby-traps. During their professional training, they are strictly forbidden to have any relationship with wine, woman and wealth in any particularly when they are on some very sensitive assignment. 





Unfortunately the spies and security personnel meet a very tragic ending when they ignore this very sensitive instruction intentionally or unintentionally. We find the situation at its worst when we cast a look at the record-files of the Indian secret-agents and security personnel who somehow or the other were fenced into such booby-traps. No need of going far back, just look at the record-files of the last five years; there are countless examples of Indian army and intelligence officers who were honey-trapped by wine, women and wealth. It seems a part of their nature and temperament.

Shivs Narayan Chandravanshi, 43, and Arjun Malviya, 35, of Bhopal district in Madhya Pradesh were arrested by the Ferozepur police in November 2014. They were from the Indian army and at the time of their arrest they were found conducting reconnaissance of the cantonment area. During the interrogation, it came to light that the accused were in contact with an ISI agent Jaya Mishra, who had honey-trapped the accused separately. At her instruction they had visited the Indo-Pak check post at Hussainwala twice. On 30th August of the same year, the Pathankot police had arrested an Indian Air Force employee on charges of spying and selling strategic information about the air force station to a woman, believed to be a Pakistani spy.

Four years later, in April 2018 the Sonipat police arrested a 22-year-old youth Gaurav Sharma on spying charges. He was also working with the Indian ministry of defence. According to the media reports he was in touch with two women who were allegedly ISI spies and whom he had met on Face book. The arrested young man told the investigators that the women lured him with sex chat and later asked him to supply sensitive information about Indian defence forces. Sharma admitted that he was in touch with the spy-women for the last one-and-a-half years. Astonishingly the arrested youth is a son of a retired army havaldar and his mysterious activities were known to his father. The investigation agencies were really shocked when they checked the Face book friend-list of these spy-women and found a lieutenant-general, three colonels, three majors, a captain, a commander, a sergeant, an NDA trainee and a jail superintendent in Jammu and Kashmir. These officers are still posted in various states like Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan, New Delhi, and Uttar Pradesh.

From the Jodhpur railway station a few weeks back, two Indian soldiers were taken into custody. They were also accused of sharing crucial information with a Pakistan-based woman ISI agent. According to the details the jawans from the Indian army were going to their village from Pokhran when intelligence officials took them into custody. They were taken to Jaipur from Jodhpur where they are still being interrogated. The Indian investigation officials confirmed that jawans were sending crucial information after falling in a honey trap of Pakistani woman. All such news covey three different messages to the world; the first one is that Pakistan has a very strong ability of intruding the Indian boundaries; second is that the defence mechanism of India is so poor and so weak that anyone could destroy it and the third message is that Indian army personnel are so weak in morality that they could sell their national secrets to the hostile countries for the sake of their trivial desires. However the authenticity of all these incidents is called in question by different analysts.

They are of the opinion that all these incidents of women-spies are nothing but intentionally concocted stories published and projected by the RAW supported media houses.

On the basis of these fishy stories, India has ever been dreaming of defaming Pakistan and creating hurdles for it at different international forums like FATF, though it has never been successful. In all such efforts of stamping Pakistan as a terrorism exporting country, India simply turns a blind eye to the agents like Kulbhushan Jadhav who is now in Pakistani custody and his case has already been decided by ICJ in favour of Pakistan. It is not only Kulbhushan, there are countless other terrorists also who were sent to Pakistan by the Indian authorities to create law and order problems for Pakistan. According to a news report in the last few months Pakistan has arrested many RAW operatives involved in anti-state activities and their cases have been sent to the courts for further legal proceedings. However projection and promotion of such false-news items about Pakistani women-spies is a proof of Indian acceptance and admittance that Pakistan has a very strong rather ‘muscular’ potential of reaching and hitting the ‘heart-core’ of the Indian defence system. From Pakistani point of view, this admittance is a matter of pride but for India it is vice-versa.