NEW DELHI: Madhuri Gupta, the junior diplomat who was arrested last week for allegedly passing secret information to a Pakistani intelligence agent, was remanded to 14 days' judicial custody by a Tis Hazari court here on Saturday.Ms. Gupta, who was posted as the Secondary Secretary with the Press and Information Wing of the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, was produced before the court on completion of her five-day police custody. During an in-chamber hearing, the police sought two days extension of her remand to confront her with the records obtained by them. However, the court turned down their request and sent Ms. Gupta to judicial custody till May 15.
Ms. Gupta's counsel said she told the court that she was innocent and was being framed.
| "Yes, and I was hypnotized by faceless miscreants, too! I remember nothing, nothing at all, since leaving my father's house for the convent school when I was fourteen." |