YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra was in touch with Pakistan’s ISI during Operation Sindoor, she also had links with….
YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra, who was arrested from Hisar in Haryana, may be part of a large espionage network. However, the police have not yet received any information about her providing any sensitive information. Pakistani intelligence operatives were training Haryana YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra, who was arrested on espionage charges, as an asset, police also claimed.
Hisar-based Malhotra (33), who runs a YouTube channel, ‘Travel with JO’, was arrested from New Aggarsain Extension on Friday.
According to sources, Pakistani intelligence agency ISI wanted to identify Indian intelligence agents through Jyoti.
This was revealed through WhatsApp chatting between Jyoti and ISI officer Ali Hasan.
The entire plan of the conspiracy was revealed in the chat.
In the chat, Ali Hasan asked Jyoti in code words that when she went to Attari border, did she find any undercover agent there who was given entry under some special protocol.
This is a part of the conversation between the two:
Ali Hasan: When you went to Atari, who all got the protocol there?
Jyoti: Who got it, I did not get it.
Ali Hasan: It means, as if he is an undercover person, one can tell by looking at him, how you had to take him out or bring him inside. It’s my matter, you had to bring him inside the gurudwara, you had to make both of them sit in the room, keep doing this.
Jyoti: No, he was not that crazy.
The SP said she went to Kashmir before the Pahalgam attack and visited Pakistan before that, and added that police are also trying to establish the “link” between these visits.
FIR says…
Malhotra, whose YouTube channel and Instagram account have 3.77 lakh subscribers and 1.33 lakh followers respectively, allegedly was in contact with the Pakistani staffer working at the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi.
In 2023, Malhotra came in contact with Ehsan-ur-Rahim alias Danish at the Pakistan High Commission where she went to seek a visa to visit the neighbouring nation, according to an FIR lodged at Civil Lines Police Station on May 16.
Malhotra, who visited Pakistan twice, had met Danish’s acquaintance Ali Ahwan who arranged her stay there, the FIR read.
She met Danish several times at the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi and was found to be in touch with PIOs, it said. Ahwan arranged Jyoti’s meeting with Pakistani security and intelligence officials. She was in contact with them through WhatsApp, Telegram and Snapchat, and passed on sensitive information, according to the FIR.
On May 13, India expelled the Pakistani official working at the High Commission for allegedly indulging in espionage. Later on Friday, Malhotra was arrested in Hisar.
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