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Indian diplomat arrested for spying for Pakistan | An Indian woman diplomat has been arrested here after confirmation was received of her passing on sensitive information to Pakistan. Madhuri Gupta, a second secretary with the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, was arrested here on Sunday after being called back by the Ministry of External Affairs for consultations related to the XVIth
SAARC Summit. Gupta was produced before a court on Monday and remanded to police
custody for four days. A private television channel quoted sources in the ministry
as saying that Gupta, 45, had been leaking sensitive and strategic Indian Government
information to Pakistan for the past two years. They said they had been monitoring
the activities of Gupta, an Indian Foreign Service (IFS)-B grade officer, for
the past year, and added that over the past six months, the surveillance had been
raised to a higher level. The channel said the issue was not so much about the
arrest of the diplomat, as it was about Pakistan being successful in planting
a mole in the Indian diplomatic mission in Islamabad. Gupta, who was a specialist
interpreter in Urdu, was posted in the media and information wing of the high
commission The Ministry of External Affairs has said that it will brief the press
here in the evening. As of now, Gupta is being interrogated by personnel of the
Intelligence Bureau and the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). |
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