Overview
- Rajasthan Anti-Terrorism Squad arrested Babita Dhakad, also known as Khadija, after intelligence inputs and produced her to a court that remanded her to ATS custody for seven days.
- Investigators found multiple SIMs, Facebook and WhatsApp contacts with Pakistani numbers and profiles that intelligence sources say are linked to Jaish-e-Mohammed operatives.
- Security officials say the woman underwent a phone-led religious conversion by a Pakistan-based cleric and that handlers discussed moving her abroad through third countries with travel funding reportedly via cryptocurrency.
- Forensic teams are attempting to recover deleted chats, photos and other erased data from her devices while ATS and state police are conducting searches to trace possible local associates.
- Authorities are probing operational angles including recruitment of women, suspected honey-trap targeting of security personnel and searches related to suicide attacks, with all leads under active verification.