New Delhi: Jyoti MalhotraA YouTuber from Hisar, Haryana, who was arrested Official secrecy act Allegedly Spy for PakistanPolice said that recently traveled to neighboring country before the terrorist attacks in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir. The police is investigating a possible link between his visit and the attack.Shashank Kumar Sawan, SP Hisar said that Malhotra was in regular contact with a Pakistani citizen and was allegedly being developed as “property”. “She used to go to Pakistan on sponsored trips. She was earlier in Pakistan. Pahgam attackAnd the investigation is going on to install any possible linkage, ”he told reporters.Police said that she had visited Pakistan twice and was in touch with other Indian affected as well as Pakistan Information Officers (PIOs). During interrogation, he allegedly admitted to meeting a Pakistani officer, Ahsan-ur-Rahim alias Danish in 2023, Delhi’s Pakistan High Commission. He allegedly exchanged numbers with him and later met with Pakistani intelligence officials during his visits.“The suspicious material was recovered from his mobile phone and laptop,” said Hisar DSP Kamaljeet. Malhotra has been sent to five-day police remand and has been booked under the official Secrets Act and BNS section 152.Her father, Haris Malhotra admitted that she had traveled to Pakistan and made a video for YouTube. “She used to go to Pakistan and other places. I don’t know how many times she had gone, but she left with appropriate permissions,” she told ANI, while the police also questioned the seizure of her electronic equipment and documents by the police.The Pahalgam attack earlier this month included a target ambush on security personnel. While no direct relations have been established so far, police sources said that Malhotra’s presence in Pakistan had raised “serious red flags” before the attack.The investigation is going on to detect any possible coordination with the limit of its contacts and hostile actors.
