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Lt Col honey-trapped by Bangladeshi woman ‘ISI agent’
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 11
A middle-rung Army officer is facing charges of establishing unauthorised contact with a Bangladeshi woman, suspected to be an ISI agent, who had last year trapped an Army officer posted in Dhaka.

The officer in question is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Armoured Corps and is posted in Suratgarh district of Rajasthan. He is facing a Court of Inquiry (CoI) for allegedly establishing contact with the woman, Sheeba, over social networking site Facebook, Army officials confirmed today. The contact between the two, as per Army authorities, was over Facebook. However, sources said he was arrested from a hotel in Delhi on a tip-off from an external intelligence agency.

The CoI was ordered after the Intelligence Bureau observed that the officer was in regular touch with Sheeba over Facebook. Army sources said the officer had not established physical contact with Sheeba and contact was restricted to the cyber domain. Sheeba was earlier allegedly involved in honey trapping another Lieutenant Colonel during his posting in Bangladesh. The Infantry officer was photographed with Sheeba at a party and then blackmailed by ISI to part with information.