Click to play videoNew Delhi: More explosive details are emerging about diplomat-turned-ISI spy Madhuri Gupta as investigators say she was looking for specific information on the Indian military. And sources believe, she may have compromised identities of Indian intelligence officials in an attempt to teach the IFS a lesson.
A doctor couple based in Sunderbani in Rajouri district of Jammu has come under scanner for links with Madhuri. Sources say she visited Dr Khemraj and Champa in Sunderbani for three days in March this year. During that visit, Gupta also reportedly visited the border area of Rajouri and spent a day in Jammu.
Her association with the couple dates back to 1985. Both Khem Raj Sharma and his wife Champa Sharma are government doctors. While Khem Raj has retired, Champa Sharma has applied for pre-mature retirement, three years before schedule.
She was bold, brash and fearless. She was hoping for plum posting in London or Washington. She used old-school intelligence techniques but her luck ran out when she got bolder and started sending emails to her Pakistani handlers from her office computer.
"What took you guys so long to get?" is what Madhuri exactly told officials on getting nabbed. Sources say she showed no repentance for what she had done and in fact, it seems that she wanted to teach the Indian Foreign Service a lesson.
Though she has not passed on much sensitive material, she has disclosed identities of intelligence officers posted as diplomats in Pakistan and in a few other Indian embassies, especially in south Asia and Middle East.
Investigations are on to find out whether she was used to bug the High Commission. She sent seven emails in 2010, containing her assessments that she prepared after discussion or loose talks with several officers, some on political prospect of composite dialoguee between India and Pakistan. She was first suspected when she showed interest in military info.
Clearly, Madhuri had compromised the identities of undercover Indian intelligence agencies, not just in Pakistan but in many other places. So, a massive operation has been launched to debrief intelligence officers and diplomats who had interacted personally with Gupta in the last five years.
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