Information is hard to get, but it seems that the Bharati (aka Indian) RAW agent that has been working in the Bharati High Commission in Islamabad since 2007 was what the Bharatis classified as “low caste”.  Madhuri Gupta apparently is not considered of high caste by the Bharatis.

Media reports seem to indicate that she was “disgruntled staff” and may have done it for money.

Bharatis have faces similar issues in China and other countries–however this is the first time they have been able to catch a Bharati double-agent in Pakistan.

RAW is an exclusive Hindu domain. RAW has no Muslim agents in it. Now RAW will continue its segregation and keep only high caste agents on its rolls.

• In the 1980s, Pakistani intelligence allegedly recruited a senior Indian military attache using a “honey trap” involving an attractive woman in Karachi who reportedly seduced and blackmailed him.
• When India found out, it returned him to India and fired him but never prosecuted him. “It’s sometimes very difficult to prove,” said Raman. “You need evidence from people in Pakistan, which is difficult to get.”
• she still could have caused significant damage if she had planted electronic listening devices, he added.
• In the 1970s, he said, India caught and fired a British telephone operator in its Paris Embassy taping conversations and feeding them to British intelligence services.
• Red flags reportedly went up after Gupta, who is unmarried, started asking questions outside her area of responsibility and was found with funds in a Pakistani account, according to the Times Now news network. She has since confessed to being lured by the money and unhappiness over not being promoted, the network added.
• Analysts said cellphone intercepts also may have played a role along with suspicions raised by embassy colleagues. Los Angeles Times

Government sources say Gupta, who was liaising officer between Indian and other embassies in Islamabad, has risen through the ranks and was engaged in espionage for the Pakistanis for about two years. She has been produced in a local court in East Delhi where she stays, and remanded to 10 days police custody.”I am not trying to discriminate on the basis of class, but a person who has not been properly trained and brought up in the values of the services can perhaps be more susceptible to foreign inducements easily. Nevertheless, given the fact that all those working in Islamabad know that they are under watch and being targeted by Pakistani intelligence which is on the lookout for chinks – that they were able to penetrate the embassy is shocking,” said Union minister Kapil Sibal. He said it was imperative to ascertain what information had been leaked.Speaking in the development, Times Now strategic affairs expert Mahroof Raza said, “The Indian government would have found it extremely difficult to hold an Indian officer in the High Commission if she was working for the Pakistani government. She would be having patrons in the Pakistani system who would make it extremely difficult to get her back and put her through legal and administrative proceedings. This is perhaps the first time an Indian diplomat has been caught spying overseas and working against Indian interests. This gives a completely different dimension to Pakistan’s desire to know what India is up to on foreign policy.” Time of India

According to Bharati press reports, the Bharati Matahari as a person who was very keep to goto Pakistan. The entire RAW section in Islamabad is under suspicion. The head of the RAW is also a person of interests in Delhi.

53-year-old IFS Group B officer Madhuri Gupta was working in the press wing of the Indian High Commission, according to intelligence sources. It is unlikely that she was a lone spy operating on her own. But there is so far no confirmation of any others arrested or interrogated. According to sources, simultaneously, the station head of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) in Islamabad R K Sharma has also come under the scanner, according to sources.Home secretary G K Pillai said Gupta had been passing information to Pakistani agencies. “She has been arrested,” he said.According to sources, Gupta, a spinster, is alleged to have been taking information from the RAW station head in Islamabad, which was passed to the Pakistani spy agencies.

Considering recent reversals of Bharati foreign policy in Afghanistan, it can clearly be surmised that a lot of sensitive information was passed on to the Pakistan. Islamabad know each and every move that Bharat was making. Islamabad was one step ahead in Tehran, in Istanbul, and in London. This could simply not be a coincidence. Mr. Gupta was possibly a crucial link in what the Bharati call “penetration” on the Bharati Civil Service and intelligence agencies.

Spying is a double edged sword. It is not very important what Bharati documents were stolen from the High Commission–what is more important is the fact that false or misleading information was fed into the Bharti system.

The most damaging part of the Gupta affairs is that Bharatis now suspect their entire spy network and are not sure who is a spy and how deep the tentacles of the ISI are into RAW. The speed and manner in which successive TTP heads were chopped off is an indication that sensitive RAW information was in the hands of the Pakistani government.

It will take years for RAW to purge itself from the ramifications of this infiltration by the best spy agency on the planet. The ISI has all the Bharati documents it wants–Chinese and Pakistani hackers not only retrieved the documents from poorly secured Bharati PC networks–however confirmation of paper documents is a huge coup for Pakistan.