{"id":74696,"date":"2025-05-17T21:08:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T16:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=74696"},"modified":"2025-05-17T21:08:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T16:08:29","slug":"indian-travel-blogger-jyoti-malhotra-allegedly-arrested-for-spying-for-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/indian-travel-blogger-jyoti-malhotra-allegedly-arrested-for-spying-for-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian travel blogger Jyoti Malhotra allegedly arrested for spying for Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DHELI: Indian travel blogger Jyoti Malhotra was arrested by Haryana Police on Saturday for allegedly spying for Pakistani intelligence agencies during <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/uncategorized\/modi-hails-operation-sindoor-as-revenge-strike-claims-over-100-terrorists-killed\/\">Operation Sindoor<\/a>, <span class=\"diff-highlight\">according<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">to<\/span> Indian media <span class=\"diff-highlight\">sources<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Jyoti was <span class=\"diff-highlight\">arrested<\/span> from the New Aggarwal Extension area<span class=\"diff-highlight\">,<\/span> in Hisar. <span class=\"diff-highlight\">Known<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">for<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">her<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">YouTube<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">channel<\/span><span class=\"diff-highlight\">,<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">&#8220;<\/span><span class=\"diff-highlight\">Travel<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">with<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">Jo<\/span><span class=\"diff-highlight\">,<\/span><span class=\"diff-highlight\">&#8220;<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">she<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">has<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">3<\/span><span class=\"diff-highlight\">.<\/span><span class=\"diff-highlight\">77<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">lakh<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">subscribers<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">and<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">over<\/span> 1.32 lakh <span class=\"diff-highlight\">followers<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">on<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">Instagram<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Jyoti has travelled to Pakistan <span class=\"diff-highlight\">three<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">times,<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">as<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">well<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">as<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">uploaded<\/span> videos of her <span class=\"diff-highlight\">visit<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">to<\/span> her YouTube channel and Instagram page.<\/p>\n<p>The police registered a case against her under Sections 3, 4, and 5 of the Official Secrets Act, 1923<span class=\"diff-highlight\">,<\/span> and under Section 152 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"diff-highlight\">After<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">her<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">confession<\/span><span class=\"diff-highlight\">,<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">she<\/span> was sent to police custody <span class=\"diff-highlight\">for<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">5<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">days<\/span>. According to the FIR, <span class=\"diff-highlight\">she<\/span> was in <span class=\"diff-highlight\">continuous<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">contact<\/span> with officials from the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi and sharing <span class=\"diff-highlight\">&#8220;<\/span>sensitive information<span class=\"diff-highlight\">&#8220;<\/span> with them.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"diff-highlight\">Additionally<\/span><span class=\"diff-highlight\">,<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">she<\/span> was <span class=\"diff-highlight\">constantly<\/span> communicating with her <span class=\"diff-highlight\">Pakistan<\/span> handlers <span class=\"diff-highlight\">through<\/span> social media <span class=\"diff-highlight\">applications<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">like<\/span> WhatsApp, Telegram, and Snapchat.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"diff-highlight\">According<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">to<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">authorities<\/span><span class=\"diff-highlight\">,<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">she<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">also<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">divulged<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">related<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">details<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">that<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">could<\/span> <span class=\"diff-highlight\">compromise<\/span> national security<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHELI: Indian travel blogger Jyoti Malhotra was arrested by Haryana Police on Saturday for allegedly spying for Pakistani intelligence agencies during Operation Sindoor, according to Indian media sources. Jyoti was arrested from the New Aggarwal Extension area, in Hisar. Known for her YouTube channel, &#8220;Travel with Jo,&#8220; she has 3.77 lakh subscribers and over 1.32 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":74697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[28796,28795],"class_list":["post-74696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-style","category-pakistan","tag-indian-travel-blogger-jyoti-malhotra-arrested","tag-operation-sindoor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74698,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74696\/revisions\/74698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}