YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra had several bank accounts, did transactions in foreign currency: Report
Vlogger Jyoti Malhotra was in close contact with expelled Pakistan High Commission official Danish who introduced her to Pakistani Intelligence Operatives | YouTube
Haryana resident Jyoti Malhotra, who has been arrested on espionage charges, allegedly had several bank accounts in her name through which transactions were carried out, even in foreign currency, according to reports.
The YouTuber from Hisar is being interrogated by the military intelligence, which found out she had accounts in several banks. However, the officials are not disclosing the amount in these accounts, according to a report that appeared in Amar Ujala.
Her role in the Pahalgam terror attack is also under scanner. However, speculations are that Malhotra was in touch with Pakistani intelligence operatives even after the attack. Even when the dispute between India and Pakistan escalated after the Pahalgam attack, Jyoti was in touch with Pakistan Intelligence operatives, the report added. However, the allegations are yet to be confirmed by the authorities.
She reportedly met the Pakistan Embassy official Ehsan-ur-Rahum alias Danish in March too. The duo met when Malhotra approached the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi in 2023 for a visa to visit Pakistan.
Meanwhile, the content of Malhotra's diary after her Pakistan visit reveals she was enticed by the country. She wrote about the "love" she received from Pakistan during her trips and wanted "the resentment in our hearts" to be removed. According to reports, Malhotra visited Pakistan thrice.
Officials believe that 33-year-old Malhotra's later visits to Pakistan "showed some pattern". The Hisar-based woman ran a YouTube channel titled 'Travel with JO'.
Her two-page account revealed that Malhotra believed Indians and Pakistan were one, as "they were from the same soil." She says two days were too little to visit Lahore. "I don't know how long the borders will remain. The resentments in our hearts should be removed. We are from the same soil. I request the Pakistan government to open more Gurudwaras and temples for Indians and create a friendly atmosphere so that Hindus can also visit there," she wrote in her diary.
She also used the words "crazy and colourful" for Pakistan and said her subscribers and friends came to visit her in Pakistan. "Protect the temples there and let Indians meet their families from whom they were separated in 1947," she wrote.
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