(Dr Pentapati Pullarao)
Nations across time have been fighting with each other and jealously watch each other. Nations use spies to find out what their enemy is doing. The work of spies is most important and makes the difference between victory and defeat. Chanakya, the greatest Indian philosopher who lived 2500 years ago gave top importance to spying and believed that ‘spies are crucial for gathering intelligence, mainlining internal order and protecting the kingdom from external threats “
Earlier, people were used as spies, as there was not technology. But now, countries depend totally on technology for spying. Every road, building or farm across the world is now available on social media. But for some reason, Pakistan likes to trap Indian Hindu girls for spying!!!!
The sensational arrest of You-Tuber Jyoti Malhotra has brought focus on spying by Pakistan and how Pakistan traps Indian girls. The strange obsession of the Pakistan forces and Pakistan spy agencies with Indian women is sickening. In 2010, Indian government posted 55-year-old Madhavi Gupta to Pakistan at our Embassy. Obviously, Madhavi Gupta was suffering from mental illnesses. Within a few weeks, a young Pakistani, aged 30 years, promised to marry her, if she gives away secrets and she did. Government for India arrested her in 2011.
Jyoti Malhotra is not the first Indian woman trapped by Pakistan. There must be dozens of other young people either trapped by Pakistan or attempts being made to trap them. Many youngsters make a profession of using YouTube and this makes it easy for Pakistan to approach them through proxies.
How Pakistan trapped Jyoti Malhotra
The Indian government agencies are questioning Jyoti Malhotra and eventually the entire truth will come out. But from media reports, we know how Pakistan trapped Jyoti Malhotra.
Obviously, Pakistani agents watch numerous Indians for a chance to trap them.
- Jyoti Malhotra was a single woman aged 31 years and from a humble background. She ran a YouTube channel and obviously looked for an income from it. Pakistan immediately must have arranged harmless advertisements for her channel. Jyoti must have thought that she was getting advertisements because of her work. She did not realize that Pakistan had laid a trap for her.
- From media reports, obviously she was contacted by Pakistani agents, and she went to the Pakistan High commission for a visa. From then on, after visiting Pakistan, Jyoti Malhotra was fully trapped and must have thought that she was doing nothing wrong and only giving Travel Videos.
- Everything was done openly to avoid suspicion. Jyoti went to the Pakistan High Commission events openly. Now news has come out that Jyoti Malhotra visited Pahalgam before the attacks and took videos.
Jyoti Malhotra must have been under watch by Indian agencies ever since she started visiting Pakistan High Commission. The agencies took action at the right time and arrested her.
How it ended
Jyoti Malhotra will end up in jail for 25 years. The Pakistani who was her contact in the High Commission was expelled from India. But that Pakistani will get a promotion in Pakistan, while Jyoti’s life is ruined. She is only 32 years and there is misery now for the rest of her life.
Her innocent family will suffer. There are many young Indian girls falling prey to money, because they come from poor backgrounds. Costly gifts and money are enough to tempt them. Rich girls get into other kinds of trouble. But poor girls get into trouble because they want to somehow survive in this competitive world.
Where are the Pakistanis who trapped her? Are they paying for her lawyers? No, the Pakistanis have ruthlessly left Jyoti Malhotra to face a ruined life. Of course, the Pakistanis knew that if she got caught, nothing will happen to them. But Indian girls and youth must understand how cheaply their lives are discarded by Pakistanis.
Evil Intent behind luring Indian girls
There is some evil intent in seducing and ruining Indian girls by Pakistanis. It is some form of revenge they are taking on India. Our girls should understand that they will get caught and there will be no Pakistani to help them. Jyoti Malhotra deserves no pity. But there are many Jyoti Malmotras who are vulnerable.
The question is whether Jyoti Malhotra was an idiot, or she was too clever and thought she could cheat the Indian government and not get caught.
In the next few weeks, we will get more information from government agencies on how deep Jyoti Malhotra worked and how many others are involved.
Nowadays spies are not usually hung as was done in earlier days. Jyoti Malhotra will face years in jails, and she will remember that there is no Pakistani around to help her. Sad for India, sad for her and her family! Many such girls are trapped by Pakistani rogues from their Embassies. Did the Pakistanis not know the fate of Jyoti Malhotra if she was caught?
(Autor is a Polico-Economic Analyst based in New Delhi)