Jammu and Kashmir Police have registered an espionage case against the wife of a senior Army officer, alleging that she shared sensitive information with suspected Chinese agents who posed as academicians and commissioned her to write articles on defence-related issues, an official source said on Sunday.
An FIR (No. Jammu Police began investigating the matter after receiving intelligence inputs from the intelligence wing of an agency about suspicious communications between the Army officer’s wife and her foreign-based contacts. Wrongful communication of information under the Act carries a maximum punishment of three years in prison.
290/2026) was registered at Gandhi Nagar Police Station in Jammu against the woman, a resident of Telangana, under Sections 3 and 5 of the Official Secrets Act, 1923, and Sections 152 and 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the source said. Section 3 of the Official Secrets Act prescribes a maximum prison sentence of 14 years for spying.
Police are investigating how the foreign-based operatives, posing as “academicians”, established contact with the woman.
The investigation remains underway.
