19-05-2025
Haryana YouTuber was lured to push pro-Pak content, called it free speech: Cops
Arrested YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra showed no signs of remorse during questioning or indicated that she had even made a mistake, while maintaining that she was merely exercising her freedom of speech, sources revealed to India Today Pahalgam terror attack, Jyoti, who has 3.85 lakh subscribers on YouTube, put out a video claiming that it was not the fault of any was asked to push the pro-Pakistani narrative, which is a new form of warfare," sources added.
During the course of the investigation, it was further revealed that Jyoti was allegedly given additional tasks by her Pakistani handlers. The police are currently probing this from the narrative push angle, the police are also probing if Jyoti had leaked information on any sensitive military or non-military assets to Pakistani intel to the police, other friends of Jyoti, including travel influencers -- especially those who visited Pakistan -- are also under investigation. Earlier, the Haryana Police revealed that she was being developed as an asset to push pro-Pakistani has travelled to Pakistan three times -- in 2023, 2024, and in March 2025, ahead of the Pahalgam terror visits to Pakistan and Kashmir within a short timeframe are also under scrutiny, particularly to determine whether she was directed to upload travel videos featuring specific locations or an initial probe has revealed that Harkirat Singh, one of the 11 suspects who was charged with spying for Pakistan, had introduced Jyoti to Ehsan-ur-Rahim alias Danish, an official at the Pakistani Embassy in New Delhi who was expelled last week, sources told India Today who is a part of Haryana's Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee's employee, had helped Jyoti twice to get a visa and sent her across the border as part of a jatha, a group of Sikh pilgrims who travel to Pakistan four times annually on religious phone has been seized, and an investigation is underway. Harkirat will be asked to join the investigation once officials go through the electronic evidence, sources said. On Sunday, Harkirat was released after questioning.
