Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
- Many officers gave away security related information to the caller
By Dheeraj Fartode
Shaken by Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) backed operatives attempt to wriggle out sensitive operational details and security measures at stations, Railway Board sounded out a warning to its field officials, asking them to beware. The Board’s caution notice was issued after it came to fore that details about movement of army rake was extricated in one instance. The caller managed to hoodwink the concern railway official by identifying himself as senior official of Defence Ministry. However, Intelligence Bureau soon got into loop when they learnt about spoofing exercise on part of ISI backed intelligence operatives.
Chief Operating Manager (CoM), Central Railway, R D Tripathi, recently sent a communication to heads of its five divisions, giving details of spoofed number exercise and said this can mislead any top official in divulging sensitive information. A top security official confirmed receipt of such letter and said attempts were made to get information about security measures and more about the movement of military rakes.
The few cases that came to notice of intelligence agency in country saw the callers across the border dialing mobile numbers of a senior railway officials seeking information about movement of train traffic, with stress on movement of troops and their equipment. Many officers gave away security related information to the caller. After investigations the call was traced to Pakistan based city and cyber experts then decoded the trick and that led to generation of warning to all government establishment and railways in particular, the sources further stated.
The CR’s letter is of June 11, 2013 warning divisional officers that PIOs have succeeded in ferreting out sensible information having serious implication for national security. He directed officers to double check any such attempts seeking out top secret information. A top level Intelligence officer said that the information can be used for major terror attack on Indian Railways.
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