Woman diplomat in Indian mission in Pakistan held for spying

NEW DELHI -Madhuri Gupta, a second secretary of the Indian High Commission in Pakistan, was arrested from her home here on the charges of spying for the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), police and official sources said Tuesday.

“The accused Madhuri Gupta was arrested from her house in east Delhi by Delhi Police’s Special Cell on charges of spying and leaking some important documents. Before the arrest, she was detained and questioned for 2-3 days,” a police source told IANS.

“She was serving in press and information wing of the Indian High Commission in Pakistan for the last couple of years. Her movements were being followed from past several months,” he said.

“The woman was produced in the court Monday after which she was sent to police custody,” the source added, saying that an official statement on the arrest would probably come from the external affairs ministry.

Other sources said Gupta had been under the scanner for some time and the action was taken after it was confirmed that she was passing sensitive information to her handlers.

Gupta was not a member of the main Indian Foreign Service (IFS), but belonged to the lower cadre known as IFS-B.