Madhuri Gupta IFS Officer Arrested In Islamabad Pakistan Today 27 April 2010 Madhuri Arrested

Madhuri Gupta, the indian diplomat arrested for spying in the Indian mission in Islamabad, may not have access to sensitive information, but she has access to the high commission and could have planted transmitting devices and tapped phones, writes B. Raman.

53-year-old IFS officer was posted in the press wing of the Indian High Commission in Pakistan.
She was called to New Delhi ostensibly on consultation duty in connection with the SAARC summit opening in Thimphu on April 29 and taken into custody after her arrival.
Apparently, she was not aware that she was under suspicion. If she was, she might not have come to New Delhi. Instead, she might have fled to some other country to escape arrest and interrogation as Major Rabinder Singh, an alleged mole of the Research & Analysis Wing, did in 2004.

According to sources the accused who is said to be an Urdu interpreter who has served in Delhi, Kuala Lumpur and Islamabad, has confessed to the crime.

Home secretary G K Pillai said “Madhuri has been passing secret information to Pakistani agencies.”

As a Second Secretary in the Press and Information Wing, Gupta might not have had much access to sensitive intelligence. But, as she was working in the high commission, she would have had access to various offices in the Indian High Commission for performing furtive tasks such as planting bugs in the offices of the high commissioner and other diplomats, attaching transmitting devices for transmitting the telephone conversations of the high commissioner and others to the officer who recruited her etc.