Arrested Navy sailor remanded to judicial custody
Pradeep Mukherjee, a sailor in the Navy, was arrested and taken to court in Vijayawada on October 5, 2026. Intelligence officials had been monitoring his activities and subsequently apprehended him in Coimbatore. The allegations against the accused are severe, claiming he leaked sensitive information about the Visakhapatnam Naval Base and its operations to a Pakistani female intelligence operative via social media. As a result, the court has granted Mukherjee judicial remand.
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