Madhuri reenacts Pukar, almost

NEW DELHI: Madhuri Gupta, Pakistan's mole in the Indian high commission in Islamabad, was particularly interested in gathering information on

military-related matters and often posed probing questions, mainly to the defence attache, regarding Army exercises being undertaken near the India-Pakistan border.



Though intelligence agencies here are ruling out any possibility of Gupta gaining access to any top-secret documents, sources conceded that she may have gathered enough information simply by observing her seniors and hearing them informally discuss security assessments after formal meetings or at social gatherings. She also seems to have showed an undue interest in joining casual discussions with the defence attache, asking probing questions on sensitive Army matters such as deployment details and border exercises.



Even though it is now more than apparent that the lady officer may have passed on secret information to the Pakistani agencies — through a man calling himself Rana — for monetary considerations, a scrutiny of her bank statements sourced from Pakistan has not really revealed much. "There is nothing unusual about the deposits or transfers made into the bank accounts she held in Pakistan... Chances are that the money transfers may have been made into her account in a bank located in a third country," said a senior intelligence official.



The agencies are now tracking her computer's hard disk and e-mails for information regarding such bank accounts held by her. According to the officer, the information about the extent of her espionage deals has been coming in slow as the agencies cannot employ traditional methods of interrogation while questioning the lady. "We are dealing tactfully given that she is a woman, which is why information is coming in a trickle on the extent of sensitive information she may have passed on."



The investigators are also tracking her friends in Delhi and elsewhere to gather more details of her conversations with them over the last two years, when she was feeding information to the Pakistani agencies. The aim is to get her friends and colleagues to voluntarily share information on any mention by her of links to any Pakistani officers during her conversations of in her e-mails.



"This will widen our search and may help us dig out more information on the extent to which she may have been compromised during her stint in Pakistan," said an officer involved in the probe. RAW sources ruled out the possibility of her having gained access to technical intelligence gathered by its Pakistan-based staff. \"Even if the documents relating to the technical intelligence may have been in Urdu, there was no question of the intelligence agencies having approached her for interpreting them as we strictly follow security instructions that prohibit us from sharing these documents even with MEA officials, let alone with a low-ranking official like Gupta.\"
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