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Jyoti Malhotra, a YouTuber, was arrested for sharing navy data.
She traveled to Pakistan not less than twice and met intelligence officers there.
Malhotra saved in contact with them after her go to.
She was a YouTuber by day and a spy, nicely, additionally by day, presumably.
Jyoti Malhotra aka Jyoti Rani, who ran a journey account on YouTube referred to as ‘Journey With Jo’, has been arrested from Hisar in Haryana for sharing Indian navy data with Pakistan, police stated on Saturday. She is amongst six individuals, together with a 25-year-old scholar and 24-year-old safety guard, from Punjab and Haryana who’ve been arrested on these costs.
Officers stated the 33-year-old, who describes herself in her YouTube as a ‘nomadic Leo woman wanderer’, ‘Haryanvi+Punjabi’ and ‘purane khyalo ki fashionable ladki’ (a contemporary woman with a conventional outlook), had are available in contact with an official, Ehsan-ur-Rahim alias Danish, within the Pakistan Excessive Fee and had gone to the neighbouring nation not less than twice.
After final week’s hostilities following the Pahalgam terror assault and India’s response, dubbed ‘Operation Sindoor’, Rahim had reportedly been declared persona non grata and requested to depart India inside 24 hours for committing espionage and leaking delicate data concerning the actions of the Indian Military.
Throughout her interrogation, Malhotra advised the police that she had gone to the Pakistan Excessive Fee in Delhi in 2023 to get a visa to go to the nation when she met Rahim and started speaking to him. She stated she travelled to Pakistan twice after that and met Rahim’s acquaintance Ali Ahwan, who organized for her keep and journey within the nation.
Confession
“In Pakistan, Ali Ahwan organized a gathering with Pakistani safety and intelligence officers and I met Shakir and Rana Shahbaz. I took Shakir’s cell quantity and saved it in my cellphone underneath the identify of ‘Jat Randhawa’ to keep away from suspicion. Then I got here again to India and remained in fixed contact with all of the above individuals by means of platforms like WhatsApp, Snapchat and Telegram and began sharing anti-national data. I additionally met Rahim a number of occasions,” Officers quoted Malhotra as having advised the police.
They stated Malhotra, who’s a resident of Hisar, has been charged for endangering the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India by finishing up suspicious actions and sharing Indian intelligence data with a citizen of Pakistan who has been declared persona non grata by the Authorities of India on costs of espionage.
Malhotra has been despatched to police custody for 5 days.
‘Memorable Second’
In an upbeat YouTube shorts posted in March, Malhotra detailed her journey to Pakistan, stating she had gone to discover Hindu pilgrimage websites.
“First, we clear Indian immigration, then we cross the Attari-Wagah border. While you cross the border, you’re feeling very enthusiastic. It is a memorable second, you get goosebumps. While you cross into Pakistan, there’s media protection of travellers,” she says in Hindi.
“Then you definately alternate Indian rupees for Pakistani forex. I acquired 2.6 Pakistani rupees for every Indian rupee. I suffered a loss, I had thought it will be three,” she provides.
Different movies posted this yr present her exploring the streets of Lahore, doing a “Ramzan meals tour” and visiting temples.
Different Arrests
A safety guard, Nauman Ilahi, was arrested in Haryana’s Panipat on Wednesday on costs of spying for Pakistan. The 24-year-old used to get cash deposited within the account of his brother-in-law in alternate for data.
Devendra Singh Dhillon, a 25-year-old scholar, was arrested from Kaithal on Could 12 for importing pictures of weapons on social media. On Saturday, the Haryana Police stated he admitted throughout questioning that he went to Pakistan by means of the Kartarpur hall in November final yr and was sharing delicate data with officers of the ISI (Inter Providers Intelligence).
Kaithal Superintendent of Police Aastha Modi stated the first-year Grasp’s scholar of political science at Patiala’s Khalsa Faculty had additionally shared pictures of the Patiala navy cantonment with Pakistanis officers.
The Punjab police had additionally arrested two individuals on related costs final week.