A Mohali tribunal has sent Rupnagar-based YouTuber Jasbir Singh to judicial custody pursuing the decision of his constabulary remand.
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Jasbir, arrested connected June 4 connected charges of espionage for Pakistan’s ISI, was presented successful the tribunal this afternoon. The constabulary informed the tribunal that their probe had been completed and that his further custody was not required.
Initially sent to four-day constabulary remand, Jasbir’s custody was extended by 2 much days earlier being sent to judicial custody.
Defence counsel Mohit Dhupar stated Jasbir would beryllium produced successful the tribunal again connected June 23. “We are not disclosing the timing astatine this stage, but we volition soon sermon and use for bail,” Dhupar told mediapersons aft the hearing.
Jasbir Singh, 41, a nonmigratory of Mahlan colony successful Rupnagar, runs YouTube transmission “JaanMahal Video”, which has implicit 11 lakh subscribers and features videos connected question and food.
According to the police, Jasbir attended Pakistan’s National Day lawsuit successful Delhi connected the invitation of Danish — an expelled Pakistan High Commission official. There helium allegedly met Pakistani service officials and vloggers. The authorities assertion helium travelled to Pakistan 3 times (in 2020, 2021 and 2024), establishing nonstop interaction with ISI officers, who aboriginal recruited him for espionage activities.
Sources bespeak that the constabulary are investigating the engagement of a 32-year-old pistillate who reportedly accompanied Jasbir to the Pakistan embassy successful Delhi without an authoritative invitation and aboriginal travelled with him to Pakistan. The defence counsel has, however, refuted these allegations.
Jasbir is besides suspected of having ties with Haryana-based YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra, who has already been arrested connected spying charges, and Ehsan-ur-Rahim, alias Danish.
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