Media's Attention at the real news Pune ... and mail from Chennai

There were news about Pune and mail from Chennai.
-Spy sold sensitive data to Pak -TOI, Pune today (TOI ‘Cyber hunt nets Pak spy’, December 15)
-Parliament adjourned following security alert -TOI, online edition and News Channels.
Among the news the spy story is very much concrete and success of long two years cyber hunt. An ISI agent and has already sent the sensitive data. Now ca we see this coverage on TV ... A big NO ... may be just one liner somewhere. But the mail from Chennai news covered like anything although nothing have happened yet. Why is so? Will the TV Channel bother to cover the national pride news? Or just exploit the media and create the noise all over?
For those who don't know here is the todays story TOI 16th Dec 2005
Spy sold sensitive data to Pak Pune doctor, Jaipur woman in IB eye
By Siddhartha D. Kashyap/TNN
Pune: Alleged Pakistani spy Rishi Mahendra Kumar, who was nabbed in Jodhpur early this week after an online chase for almost two years, has already passed on sensitive military information, including that on troop movement and strategic locations, to his “handler”, identified as Major Zaid Chowdhary of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
Intelligence officials said the accused had already passed military information about the army’s newlycreated South-Western Command, besides maps and photographs of military locations of the Southern Command headquarters in Pune and army formations in Jaisalmer (Rajasthan).
During his interrogation, Mahendra is expected to spill more beans about his alleged subversive activities in India. But officials in the intelligence agencies told TOI that a Punebased doctor and a wo m a n f ro m Ja i p u r, identified as Neha, are under the scanner for maint a i n i n g close links with Mahendra.
According to them, Mahendra stayed in a hotel opposite the Pune railway station, and sent an e-mail from a cyber café in Wanowrie to Major Zaid of the ISI. “But before we could lay our hands on him, he left the cyber café,” confirmed one official.
TOI had reported (‘Cyber hunt nets Pak spy’, December 15) how Mahendra (28), an arts graduate, was tracked and finally nabbed. He was given a week’s training in Hyderabad (Sindh) by the ISI and another four weeks in Karachi, before being sent to India in 2003.
But how did the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and military intelligence manage to identify and track down Mahendra, particularly when they had no clue about his identity, appearance and even his location? All that the investigators had was his and the handler’s (recipient) e-mail identities.
Cyber experts from the IB managed to intrude on his handler’s e-mail ID and lured Mahendra to meet them in Jodhpur. He was made to believe that his “handler” in this instance was Major Zaid himself.

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