New Delhi, February 9

The Delhi Police today said they had arrested Indian Air Force Group Captain Arun Marwaha on charges of espionage for passing secret information to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence.“He was arrested on Wednesday after a case was registered under the Official Secrets Act,” said MM Oberoi, Delhi Police Special Cell’s Special Commissioner. He was produced in a court that remanded him in police custody for five days.(Follow The Tribune on Facebook; and Twitter @thetribunechd)Oberoi said Marwaha was earlier detained by the IAF on January 31 after his activities were found “suspicious”. The Air Force had approached the Delhi Police to investigate the case.According to a special cell officer, Marwaha (51) shared information and documents with two Pakistani agents who chatted with him on  Facebook, pretending to be women. Fake accounts in the names of “Kiran Randhawa” and “Mahima Patel” were used to entice him.He allegedly used his smartphone to click pictures of classified documents pertaining to the IAF headquarters and sent those across via WhatsApp. The officer reportedly befriended ISI agents posing as women models a few months ago. The documents shared mostly dealt with training and combat-related air exercises. — IANS