(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist): The Delhi Police Special Cell has arrested Rajeev Sharma, a city-based strategic affairs analyst and author under the Official Secrets Act (OSA), alleging that he had been found in possession of defense-related classified papers, on September 14.
DCP (Special Cell) Sanjeev Kumar Yadav said, “He was found to be in possession of some defense-related classified documents. Investigation of the case is in progress.”
Sharma runs a YouTube channel called ‘Rajeev Kishkindha’. On the day of his arrest, he uploaded two videos. One of them is an eight-minute video titled ‘China may still do mischief #IndiaChinaFaceOff’, in which he says, “Despite an agreement… reached between the foreign ministers of India and China, the road to peace is still heavily mined.
There is still no guarantee that everything will play out as per the script reached between the two foreign ministers in Moscow.” The other video is of four minutes which he tweeted with the caption, “The state of Indian media today is pathetic. It was supposed to be a watchdog but instead, it has become a lapdog of the government.”
Late on Friday night, Sharma’s Twitter account showed the following message: “Caution: This account is temporarily restricted. You are seeing this warning because there has been some unusual activity from this account.”
Sharma was one of the people who said last year that they had been alerted about their phones being targeted for surveillance through the Israeli spyware Pegasus. “I got a WhatsApp message at 9.36 pm on October 29, saying my phone may have been at risk. The first call I got was from the Canada-based NGO 15-20 days ago and then I was advised to change my phone,” Sharma said.
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