NEW DELHI, May 19:
Former diplomat Madhuri Gupta, who had served at the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, was today sentenced to three years in jail by a Delhi court which convicted her for passing on sensitive information to Pakistan’s ISI.
Additional Sessions Judge Sidharth Sharma gave her the maximum sentence for the offences of spying and wrongful communication of information protected under the law.
Gupta, who was the Second Secretary (Press & Information) at the High Commission, was held guilty yesterday under various provisions of the Official Secrets (OS) Act.
She has been granted bail by the court to allow to appeal against the conviction and the sentence.
While convicting her, the court had said that the e-mails “passed on by the accused were categorically sensitive information which could have been useful to the enemy country… And its secrecy was of utmost importance”.(PTI)
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