'Spy' YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra's police custody extended by four days
Danish was an agent of Islamabad's notorious Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), sources said. He was expelled by India earlier this month amid tensions with Pakistan following the Pahalgam attack, which left 26 people dead.Sources said Danish's passport was issued from Islamabad, and he was granted a visa for India on January 21, 2022. According to documents, exclusively accessed by India Today, Danish was born in Narowal in Pakistan's Punjab province.She confessed to having links with Pakistani intelligence agents and said that she was in regular contact with Danish, a Pakistani High Commission official in New Delhi, sources said. According to information exclusively accessed by India Today from interrogation records, Jyoti said she first came in contact with Danish, alias Ehsar Dar, in 2023 when she visited the High Commission for a visa to travel to Pakistan.advertisementJyoti, who runs the YouTube channel called 'Travel with Jo', has around 4 lakh subscribers on the platform."In 2023, I visited the Pakistan High Commission in Delhi to enquire about a visa to travel to Pakistan," Jyoti said during questioning, according to sources.The 33-year-old said during her visit to Pakistan, she met Danish's contact Ali Hassan, who arranged her stay and travel.Sources said Jyoti also disclosed that Ali Hassan introduced her to two individuals believed to be Pakistani intelligence officials - Shakir and Rana Shahbaz.
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