ISI

Madhuri Gupta

Islamabad

Sidharth Sharma

Gupta

Delhi Police

Mubshar Raza Rana

Hydro Electric Power Projects

Kashmir

She had sent documents regarding defence personnel in India and confidential govt plans toagentsDELHI Former diplomat, who had served at the Indian High Commission in, was on Friday convicted by a Delhi court for passing on sensitive information to Pakistan’s ISI.Additional Sessions Judgeheld the former diplomat guilty under various provisions of the Official Secrets (OS) Act for the offences of spying and wrongful communication of information protected under the law.The court would hear arguments on the quantum of sentence to be handed down to Gupta on Saturday.The court noted that the e-mails “passed on by the accused were categorically sensitive information which could have been useful to the enemy country which were strategically very important for the foreign policy of the country and its secrecy was of utmost important”., who was the Second Secretary (Press & Information) at the Indian High Commission, was convicted under Sections 3 and 5 of the Official Secrets Act which attract a maximum sentence of three years and fine or both.She was arrested on April 22, 2010, by the special cell of thefor allegedly passing on sensitive information to Pakistani officials and remaining in touch with two ISI officials,and Jamshed.While convicting Gupta, the court observed that in one of the e-mails, she had promised to collect information regardingin Jammu andwhich could have had a serious repercussion on the security of the country.“It is seen that accused was unable to give such information but her intention of passing on such information and her going to Jammu after giving false excuse of attending marrige points out her intention of helping the enemy country.“She had been giving information regarding various postings of officers of defence, MEA (Ministry of External Affairs) and HCI (High Commission of India) as well as their family particulars, which could have caused danger to the life and security to said officers and their family,” the court noted.