Indian Navy chief confirms RAW agent Yadav served in Navy

NEW DELHI: Indian Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS) RK Dhowan on Monday confirmed that the RAW officer Kulbhushan Yadav arrested from the Balochistan province by the Pakistani security agencies had served in the Indian Navy.

“Don’t remember anything of him; only know he was in the Navy. After that no contact,” an Indian news agency quoted Dhowan as saying.

Earlier, the Indian government confirmed Yadav as an Indian citizen but rejected the allegation that he had acted at its behest.In a video released by the Pakistani authorities last month, Yadav confessed to have funded the Baloch insurgents.

He claimed that he was recruited by the RAW in 2013, but added that he established “a base” in Iran’s Chabahar 10 years earlier, making clandestine journeys to Karachi and Balochistan.

Yadav claimed to be a serving officer in the Navy, scheduled for retirement in 2022.

In November 2003, he obtained a passport (E6934766) from Pune, identifying him by the pseudonym Hussein Mubarak Patel.

Born in 1968 (according to the passport), Yadav joined the National Defence Academy in 1987, and was commissioned as a naval engineer in 1990.