India have under arrest a woman who works as a civil servant in his Islamabad delegation accused of undercover work for Pakistan.
"We have reason to consider that an official of the High Commissioner of India in Islamabad had passed information to the Pakistani intelligence service," Foreign Ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash said.
"The officials help with our investigations and inquiries," he said in a statement on the sidelines of a regional conference in Bhutan.
A senior police source said 53 years old woman, a second secretary at the embassy in Islamabad, had been under surveillance for six months before the police struck.
"Mrs Gupta was under arrest from her home in east Delhi after she was recalled for consultations," said the policeman said on state that he was not named.
Press Trust of India news organization said she was summoned to New Delhi under the pretext of discussions on the eight-nation South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), which will start in Bhutan on Wednesday.
She had worked in the mission for nearly three years and is accused of having disclosed in order from Islamabad, said the leader of India's external intelligence service, Research and Analysis Wing, to her Pakistani contacts, PTI
The station manager of the research flew in Islamabad, RK Sharma, was also under control for Gupta arrest, according to PTI.
KC Singh, a former Indian foreign minister, told the Times Now news channel that Gupta should in hypothesis have had limited access to her role in the information wing.
"More injure occurs if there is someone in the political wing," he said. "But there is a diffusion. We had penetration in the U.S. and Eastern Europeans, but this is the first from Pakistan. “
Arun Bhagat, a retired chief of India's cleverness Agency, called the arrest "a matter of shame" in an meeting with Times Now.
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