Germany indicts Indian couple for spying on Sikh community
Thursday, 11/04/2019
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BERLIN: An Indian couple accused of spying on Germany’s Sikh community and “Kashmir movement” have been charged with espionage, German prosecutors said.
They named the suspects only as Manmohan S, 50, and his wife Kanwal Jit K, 51, in keeping with German privacy rules for defendants.
“Manmohan S agreed by January 2015 at the latest to provide information about Germany’s Sikh community and Kashmir movement and their relatives to an employee of the Indian foreign intelligence service Research & Analysis Wing,” they said in a statement.
His wife joined him in monthly meetings with the Indian intelligence officer between July and December 2017, and in total the couple were paid 7,200 euros (₹5.6 lakh) for their work.
