New Delhi:
India's counter-terror force, the National Security Guard or NSG, has ordered an inquiry against one of its officers for sharing information over the phone about the recent blasts in Hyderabad last month.
NSG officials caution that crucial information about the investigation was not leaked in the brief conversation.
A phone call was received at the NSG headquarters in Delhi just after the Hyderabad blasts on February 21. The caller allegedly identified himself as an officer of the Army's Military Intelligence (MI) unit, and asked if an NSG team had left for Hyderabad.
The officer who answered the call confirmed that was the case.
It now turns out that there is no Military Intelligence officer with the name used by the caller.
Sources say that the call was a routine drill by the counter-intelligence unit of the MI to check if procedures and rules were being followed that includes not letting out information.
Asper standard operating procedure, any information is not supposed to be shared tillthe identity of the caller is established. Also, communication should be held throughsecured networks. In the case of the NSG officer, the communication was througha non- secured line, even though no sensitive information was passed on.