Bhubaneswar: A court in Bhubaneswar today convicted seven persons, including five from Odisha, for procuring SIM cards with fake names and sharing the OTPs with Pakistani intelligence operatives.

The Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM) Court in Bhubaneswar sentenced the convicts to three years of imprisonment and slapped a penalty of Rs 32,000 on each of them.

The convicts have been identified as Pritam Kar and Soumya Ranjan Pattanaik of Jajpur; Pathani Samanta Lenka, Saroj Kumar Nayak and Pradyumna Sahu of Nayagarh; Abhijit Sanjay of Pune and Iqbal Hussain of Gauhati.

As per the case records, the Special Task Force (STF) of the Odisha Police had arrested the seven accused on charges of procuring SIM cards from Odisha with fake names and sharing the OTPs with intelligence operatives in Pakistan.

The accused were in touch with Pakistani agents Danish Ali and Abdul Hamid. The Odisha Police had sought the help of INTERPOL in connection with the case.

Despite repeated attempts, the authorities in Pakistan did not share any information with regard to the case with Odisha Police.