'Concrete evidence' that YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra spied for Pakistan, police files chargesheet: Report

The chargesheet also named her links with ISI operatives identified as Shakir, Hasan Ali and Nasir Dhillon

YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra has been found to be spying for Pakistan and there is concrete evidence against her, according to a report by Times Now, citing a chargesheet filed by Hisar police.

The report cited a 2,500-page chargesheet against the woman arrested in May 2025 on charges of espionage

Malhotra, who ran her channel the YouTube channel Travel With Jo, was arrested in Haryana’s Hisar on May 16, just days after Operation Sindoor exposed a wider spying network in India.

Police alleged that she was in constant touch with Ehsan-ur-Rahim, also known as Danish, who had been stationed at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi.

Danish was expelled from India after the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, when the government accused him of leaking details of Indian Army movements.

The chargesheet reportedly highlights her association with ISI-linked individuals including Shakir, Hasan Ali, and Nasir Dhillon.

The police had then said that she had travelled to Pakistan multiple times and was in constant touch with Ehsan-ur-Rahim alias Danish at the Pakistan High Commission.

Danish was declared persona non grata after the Pahalgam terror attack and was asked by the Government of India to leave within 24 hours for leaking sensitive information to Pakistan on the movements of the Indian Army after the April 22 attack.

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Hisar Police said in the chargesheet that the YouTuber had been spying for Pakistan for a long time. The chargesheet mentioned that digital forensic examination of her mobile phone revealed extensive conversations with Ehsan-ur-Rahim Danish Ali, an officer at the Pakistani High Commission in India.

It also named her links with ISI operatives identified as Shakir, Hasan Ali and Nasir Dhillon, the report said.

NDTV reported that Malhotra went to Pakistan on April 17 last year and returned to India on May 15. Just 25 days later, on June 10, she went to China and stayed in the country till July, going to Nepal after that, according to the chargesheet.

“During the investigation, we have found concrete evidence that the YouTuber was spying for Pakistan,” the report by NDTV said, citing a source.

She went to Pakistan via the Kartarpur Corridor and met chief minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s daughter, Maryam Nawaz, and interviewed her, the source reportedly said.

The reported cited a Haryana officer to say that she was allegedly in touch with an officer of the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi during the four-day conflict between India and Pakistan after the Pahalgam terror attack. However, he also mentioned that she did not have direct access to any details about military operations.