Indian diplomat held for counter espionage for Pakistan

[duhastmish]

RAW don't do internal security.
Keeping eye on mushrooming Jihad swine like IM responsible for serial blasts isn't part of their official brief.



R u on medication or something??

so u belive what they feed you ??????

there is no internal mushrooming jihad,

its all planned way too far.

raw just makes lame excuses, neither - JIHADI nor MAOist are inborn terrorist they are trained and sponsored from outside,

It was told on television (nd tv show ) by ex- raw cheif that their hands are way too tied bla bla bla.......

 

[Abasin Turi]

Don't you guys live in the same neighborhood?

yeah un-fortunately we have a neighbour that has usurp our share of water, and who always meddles in our interior state affairs.. and oh yeah i forgot the best part. our neighbour's girls have a thing for our boys.. =D
wod anybody clarify why?? =D
no seriously i wanna know

 

[Forrest Griffin]

and oh yeah i forgot the best part. our neighbour's girls have a thing for our boys

Same here. I feel like a rock star when I am around indian girls.

 

[TOPGUN]

Haha this story is so funny iam loving it haha .. indian media states the lady did it for love lolz... what a pitty she sure will face a hard time back home .

 

[ajpirzada]

Gave out routine info to get back at officers: Gupta
TNN, Apr 29, 2010, 12.16am IST

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Tags:Rana|Pakistan|India|spy|ISI|Diplomat|information|Madhuri Gupta|Mudassar Rana

NEW DELHI: Madhuri Gupta, the Indian diplomat accused of spying for Pakistan, has apparently told her interrogators that she passed on only "routine" information to her Pakistani handler as she was keen to teach IFS officers a lesson for treating her shabbily.

Government sources said it would have been difficult for an official of her rank to pass on “sensitive” information.

Investigators have identified 53-year-old Gupta's handler as Mudassar Rana, a Pakistani internal intelligence official, who is not from ISI. Gupta, however, admitted that she knew Rana as a Pakistani army captain with ISI links. She denied any physical relationship with her handler.

Gupta's questioning also threw up five more names with whom she was in touch. Gupta was introduced to 56-year-old Rana by one of her journalist friends in Pakistan. Well versed in Sufism and Urdu, Gupta was on study leave at JNU before her Islamabad posting where she did research in Urdu language.

Gupta's main task was to monitor and record daily reporting in the Urdu press. She used to prepare a daily report and send it to her superiors. These reports and other details of the Indian mission's activities were being passed on to Rana for the past two years, said a senior official.


Gupta was also tasked with keeping tabs on Urdu media reports on the arrest of LeT operatives David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, both accused in the 26/11 attacks of Mumbai.

Officials said Gupta used to meet her contact in Markaz Super Market, also called Jinnah Market, and IFFI Cafe in Islamabad. Sources said that a few months back, another official posted at the Islamabad mission was called back by the MEA after Gupta's role came under the scanner. This official, who is believed to be under the watch of intelligence officials, will soon be questioned by Delhi Police.

Sources also claimed that Gupta, a Grade-B officer, had been receiving large amounts of money from the ISI which she deposited in a Pakistani bank and then transferred to Indian banks. After Gupta's arrest, another senior Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) official has come under the scanner for allegedly passing information to her.

Interestingly, Gupta has accused RAW station chief R K Sharma of being a spy. This apparently has prevented authorities from giving Sharma a clean chit. Sources, however, said it was Sharma who had first brought to light Gupta's association with Rana and the possibility that she might have been giving information to him. Sharma first disclosed this to officials in the Indian mission about five months ago.

Sharma admitted that he initially became friendly with Gupta but later got suspicious as she started to insist on acquiring information on India's intelligence operations in Pakistan.

While authorities are examining Gupta's email accounts and call details, government sources maintained that it would have been very difficult for her to hand over sensitive information to her handler. They denied that any sensitive information pertaining to India's operations in Afghanistan could have been passed on to the ISI operative.

"One possibility is that she told her handler all information which she gathered from documents which she was given to translate in Urdu. However, it was mostly related to appointments, travel schedule and public dealings of the high commission. We believe not much has been lost even though she did have some information which a person of her rank should not have had," said a highly placed government official. Gupta also denied that she made any attempt to bug offices in the high commission by planting transmitting devices.

Meanwhile, an Indian army officer is also said to be under the scanner for links with Gupta, but this is not confirmed. Gupta is said to have been in touch with the officer who belongs to Rajouri in J&K and also his relatives with whom she purportedly exchanged emails.

Gupta had worked as assistant director with ICWA at Sapru House. She had earlier served in the Indian mission in Baghdad, Serbia, Kuala Lumpur and Croatia, said an official.

Gave out routine info to get back at officers: Gupta - India - The Times of India

 

[ajpirzada]

Woman spy case: Senior Army, RAW official under scanner
PTI, Apr 28, 2010, 08.25pm IST

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NEW DELHI: In a new dimension to the sensational case of an Indian woman diplomat arrested on charge of spying for Pakistan, a high-ranking Army officer and an external intelligence agency official have come under the scanner of security agencies.

The diplomat, 53-year-old Madhuri Gupta, continued to be grilled in detention on Wednesday about information she is suspected to have passed on to Pakistani intelligence agencies. She was arrested here six days ago after being called back from Islamabad where she was posted as second secretary.

During Gupta's interrogation and earlier surveillance, the security agencies have zeroed in on a couple residing in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir who were in regular touch through e-mail and telephone with the arrested diplomat in Islamabad. The Rajouri-based woman had gone to Pakistan several times.

Highly-placed sources said the senior Army officer used to visit the Rajouri couple while he was posted in the region. He is related to the couple but his frequent visits to them have aroused suspicion of the security agencies, the sources said.

Some of the e-mails exchanged between Gupta and the Rajouri woman are part of the documents being held as evidence against the diplomat, who is in the custody of the Delhi Police special cell.

The role of the external intelligence agency official is also being investigated. Gupta may have been taking information from him, the sources said.

However, it was not immediately clear whether he knew the woman officer's real designs. He could be questioned by the security agencies, they said.

Gupta, who belongs to IFS-B service, is the first official of the foreign service who has been arrested for allegedly spying for Pakistan.

Gupta is said to have been under surveillance of Indian security agencies for about four months before it was decided to arrest her. Gupta was called to Delhi last week on the pretext of discussion over SAARC summit being held at Thimphu.

Security agencies briefed senior ministry of external affairs officials about her alleged activities in Pakistan which included supplying of sensitive and classified documents related to Indian interests in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the sources said.

Gupta has been extensively questioned by sleuths of Intelligence Bureau and Delhi Police officials during which she claimed she used to obtain sensitive information within the Indian high commission in Islamabad.

Sources said the woman diplomat had been allegedly passing information related to policy matters and movement of Indian officials to a Pakistani intelligence man identified as "Rana".

A promotee officer of ministry of external affairs, Gupta was working in the mission for nearly three years and reportedly told the investigators that she had been passing information since 2008.

She was well versed in Urdu and her services were utilised for translation and interpretation. Earlier, she had a posting in the Indian mission in Kuala Lumpur and worked with the 'India Perspective', a magazine of the external publicity wing of the external affairs ministry.

Woman spy case: Senior Army, RAW official under scanner - India - The Times of India

 

[mehru]

Shocking for Indians indeed and unbelievable for Pakistanis. A woman is expected to have a strong character specially in Asian countries. What must have prompted Madhuri to go to such an extent? Maybe she was looking for a sympathizer and she got trapped.
As she worked for my country rather than her own, i feel sorry for her but actually i don't like traitors. So she got what she deserved.
PS. There are also other reports that maybe IB was behind her rather than the famous ISI. Ether case Well done! ISI or IB.

 

[mehru]

self-delete

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

this story is hilarious/perplexing to say the least. I'm sure the indians are fuming.

according to posted article, Ms. Gupta was "passing information related to policy matters and movement of Indian officials to a Pakistani intelligence man"


i wonder if we will get any more specific information on this rather amusing incident


On behalf of Pakistan, I would like to sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, thank Ms. Gupta for services rendered!

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

In her heart of hearts she probably knew that India was in the wrong on most India-Pakistan issues.

tis likely

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

First of all, it's AGUNT not agent.

Secondly, she had links with a kahmiri women who has been visited many times by a high ranking Indian military officer. He is under investigation too, this is turning out to be another fun filled masala daar story.

Yaaaaaaaaaa Khodayya.

have we no shortage of them!!!??

 

[Awesome]

We should also investigate how she got caught. One of the things leaked from the media is that she got interested in things out of her job domain, so all future spies should note things like that. What did she do wrong here.

 

[Jackdaws]

Vivek Narain looks like a doofus now that he is married to Pakistani Sonya Jehan?

"Angoor humko nahin mile toh khate hi honge"

 

[ajpirzada]

Dreaded spook or lonely lady?
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Vijaita Singh, Aloke Tikku and Jayanth Jacob, Hindustan Times
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New Delhi, April 29, 2010
First Published: 00:23 IST(29/4/2010)
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Was Madhuri Gupta only a lonely woman in an alien land looking for some male company, and having found it in a Pakistani police officer, kept him hooked by passing off news from the local press as sensitive information?
Might sound a bit stretched. But that's what she is telling her interrogators, according to those close to the investigations. What makes her story credible is that she had no access to any information of any interest to an intelligence agency.
Gupta met Mudassar Rana, her so-called handler, at a funeral. Rana is from the Pakistani police's counterpart of India's special branch. And they struck up a relationship, said sources.
For Gupta it was company, for Rana it was information.
But the information Gupta provided him was completely useless, according to what she told her interrogators: essentially gossipy bits picked up from the local Urdu press — these were her "classified documents" for her friend Rana.
Other sources said Gupta might have revealed a little more to Rana: the true identity of the undercover intelligence officials from India, men and women of the Intelligence Bureau and the Research and Analysis Wing posted in Pakistan.
"She could have passed on information like the work profile of officials and the cadres they are from. This information is sensitive and strategic," a source explained.
Madhuri, sources insist, had given out some really inconsequential information in the nature of logistics, such as the vehicles the officials use.
"Beyond this, she could not have had much information," sources said.
"A probe is on to ascertain whether her contacts in India was being used."
"During interrogation, Madhuri gave many names of people she is in regular touch with. Whether they are mere social contacts or whether they have any links to spying need to be found out," said a source.

Dreaded spook or lonely lady?- Hindustan Times

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Madhuri Gupta is a very admirable person for helping out Pakistan. May she be released and live a long and healthy life.

Asma Jahangir and Hina Gilani can lobby and support her on behalf of HRCP