Haryana YouTuber's Instagram blocked over sharing Info with Pakistan

The Instagram account of a YouTuber from Hisar, Jyoti Malhotra, has been blocked following serious allegations of spying for Pakistan.

Jyoti is in police custody for five days after the Hisar police booked her under various sections of the BNS and the Official Secrets Act.

It is alleged that she had traveled to several sensitive and strategically important locations in Jammu and Kashmir shortly before a terrorist attack in Pahalgam.

Her YouTube videos show visits to high-security areas including Pahalgam, Gulmarg, Dal Lake, and Pangong Lake, which lies near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China, the police sources said.

They added that these visits, made in 2024 and again on January 5, 2025, have alerted the intelligence agencies, and she was on their radar ever since.

Hisar police searched her residence and seized several documents.

The sources said that the National Investigation Agency (NIA) is expected to interrogate her soon regarding possible terror links.

According to Hisar SP Shashank Kumar Sawan, Jyoti had traveled to Pakistan shortly before the recent terror attack in Pahalgam in Kashmir.

She was allegedly being groomed by Pakistani intelligence agencies to act as an asset. During her visit, she met an individual named Danish.

The FIR claims that Jyoti exchanged sensitive information with Pakistani handlers, posing a grave threat to India’s national security.

Jyoti has now been booked under Section 152 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, and the Official Secrets Act, 1923.