New Delhi: On charges of passing on secret info to Pakistan, a jawan of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was arrested today.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested CRPF jawan, Moti Ram Jat in Delhi for passing on information to the enemy country in inconspicuous manner.

NIA official sources said Jat was in touch with Pakistan Intelligence Officers (PIOs). He had been sharing classified information related to national security with Pakistanis since 2023.

The agency has also managed to detect the trail of money he used to receive from Pakistani officers through various conduits, the NIA said.

Jat has been sent to the anti-terror agency’s custody till June 6 after being produced before the Special Court at Patiala House Courts today.

While moving an application to seek his custody, the NIA told the court that its investigators wanted to question the CRPF trooper about the people he used to meet. The investigators also expressed their intention to take him to other cities to identify his aides allegedly involved in espionage.

Further interrogation of the CRPF jawan was going, as per the official sources.

The CRPF trooper’s arrest comes close on the heels of a crackdown by Indian agencies against Pakistani spies which led to the recent arrest of Haryana YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra and 11 others from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.

Two women were arrested which incldues Jyoti Malhotra, who hails from Haryana and Guzala from Punjab. The two women were taken into custody for spying activities.

Malhotra ran a YouTube chnnal with 3.77 lakh subscribers on YouTube. She has 1.33 lakh followers on Instagram. She was booked and later arrested on May 16 under the provisions of the Official Secrets Act and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

It was reported that she was in touch with Ehsan-ur-Rahim alias Danish, a staffer at the Pakistani High Commission, since November 2023. India expelled Danish on May 13 for allegedly indulging in espionage.

The NIA, the Intelligence Bureau, and Military Intelligence officials have so far questioned Malhotra. Investigations have revealed that she visited Pakistan, China, Bangladesh, Indonesia and some other countries. The police had said Pakistani Intelligence was developing Malhotra as an asset.