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| Efforts on to locate Madhuri's contact in Jammu | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, JUNE 13: Security agencies have stepped up their efforts to find out the contact of diplomat Madhuri Gupta, who was arrested on the charges of spying for Pakistan, in the winter capital.
Few days before her arrest in New Delhi, she had visited the areas close to Line of Control (LoC) in Rajouri.The pressure was now mounting on security agencies that she had visited here to collect documents from a "source" but could not do
so due to varied reasons, official sources said.
Contrary to earlier reports that she had picked up a packet at Raghunath Bazar, the 53-year-old Gupta was understood to have failed to reach her contact from whom she was to collect some documents pertaining to location of army units.
However, sources said she could not get in touch with her contact because of heavy presence of police, paramilitary forces and army in Rajouri and on the Jammu-Rajouri road. Also, a strict vigil was being maintained on the road ahead of Akhnoor as an encounter between troops and militants was in progress in the area on the day
of her visit, the sources added.
Gupta is understood to have told her interrogators that she could not meet her contact because of the heavy presence of police and army in the area.
The IFS-B officer, who was posted in Indian Mission at Islamabad as second secretary in the press and information wing and arrested in April this year.
Sources said a secret inquiry was on to find out her "source" here.Her stay in a border district of Rajouri was being probed by security agencies who had grilled her over her contacts in Pakistan and the nature of documents supplied by her handlers.
She had driven to Sunderban in the border district of Rajouri in Jammu region during which she had toured the area extensively in her Pakistan-registered car between March 29 and April one this year.
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