This news comes after three Paytm employees were arrested on Monday, October 22, for allegedly trying to extort ₹20 crore from the e-wallet giant's founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma after threatening to leak stolen personal data and confidential information, people have posted screen

Earlier, investigative news website Cobrapost in May 2018 released a ‘sting’ video that allegedly shows a senior official of digital payments app Paytm claiming that the Prime Minister’s Office asked the company to share user data in the aftermath of heavy stone-pelting in Kashmir last year.

The video shows Ajay Shekhar Sharma, who is a senior vice president at the firm, purportedly telling the Cobrapost journalist that the PMO asked for the personal data of some Paytm users in order to identify if any of them were stone-pelters.

Questions were sent to both the Kerala government and Paytm, but National Herald got no responses. As and when the responses come in, this story will be updated.