Overview

• YouTuber Jasbir Singh was arrested on June 4 and his Mohali court remand was extended by two days on June 7 as investigators seek to extract further digital evidence
• Travel vlogger Jyoti Malhotra was detained under the Official Secrets Act on May 16 for allegedly sharing strategic information with Pakistani handlers
• Investigators say Nasir Dhillon, a former Pakistan Police sub-inspector turned YouTuber, and Ehsan-ur-Rahim alias Danish, expelled from India on May 13, coordinated espionage tasks for Indian influencers
• Forensic teams have recovered around 150 suspicious Pakistani contact numbers from Singh’s phone and are probing deleted data to map the network’s reach
• At least a dozen other civilians, including students, security guards and government employees, have been arrested in a widening inquiry into ISI-backed influence operations