Overview
- Police told a local court the accused was in touch with an Islamabad-based contact and maintained close contact with an Afghan national living in India, leading to custody extended to December 5.
- Forensic analysis of her phone found 11 international contacts, including entries labeled as the Afghan embassy and Peshawar cantonment board, with much of the chat history deleted.
- Investigators say ₹32.68 lakh flowed into her account from multiple senders, notices have gone to 13 remitters, and two cheques of ₹19 crore and ₹6 lakh were seized for verification.
- She was arrested Sunday after hotel checks and is accused of using a tampered Aadhaar and forged IAS papers to stay nearly six months at a five‑star hotel while traveling to Rajasthan, Delhi and Manipur.
- IB and ATS are engaged as the FIR under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita covers cheating and forgery, and authorities work to determine whether the case is fraud or involves foreign-link elements.