Another embassy staffer recalled over spying charges: Report

In the wake of the arrest of Madhuri Gupta, a promotee officer posted in the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, another senior embassy staffer has been recalled on suspicions of spying, according to a report in the Daily Times.

The Pakistani daily reported that the senior official had not been arrested, but quietly recalled to New Delhi, and has been put on 'compulsory wait'.

The Research and Analysis Wing had kept a watch on the official and his activities had been under the scanner for the last six months.

According to the report, the embassy official is a former police officer of the Tamil nadu cadre, and had been posted as an attache for the past three years. He will not be assigned any new duties till RAW and other investigation agencies complete their probe, said the Daily Times.

The arrest of Gupta -- who had allegedly passed on confidential information to Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence -- had shocked the government, as it was the first time that a senior Indian bureaucrat had been accused of spying.