Gurugram: A Himachal Pradesh man secretly accessed his estranged wife’s phone and computer and admitted doing so in an Army inquiry into allegations that she was having an affair with a military officer, according to her police complaint.
Jaspreet Kaur alleged that she didn’t know for nearly two years that she was being watched through her own phone and only found out when she read the records of the Army inquiry that her ex-husband himself had set in motion.
Police in Panchkula named her former husband, Kamal Raj (42), and two former employees of their financial firm, Sapna and Anisha Yadav, in the police complaint on 12 September. All three are accused of hacking and data theft.
Kamal Raj, originally from Lag village in Himachal Pradesh’s Hamirpur district, married Kaur from Chandigarh on 19 November 2012. The FIR describes it as a love-and-arranged marriage. Their son was born in 2017.
The couple also worked together. They ran Omkar Financial Services as equal partners, offering financial services to clients, many of them from Army circles. The office was first run from the Chandimandir cantonment area. It later shifted to DSS 98 in Sector 5, Mansa Devi Complex, Panchkula. Sapna and Anisha Yadav worked there as employees.
The marriage did not last. The two separated in September 2022, but the firm kept operating with both as partners. Kaur says that is when things began to go wrong.
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The allegations
In her complaint, Kaur says Kamal Raj had installed a CCTV camera in the office that could be viewed on a mobile phone. She says she asked him repeatedly for its password. She was a 50 percent partner, she told the police, and wanted access for security reasons. She never got it.
On 21 August 2024, Kamal Raj complained to the Army authorities, alleging that his wife was having an affair with a military officer. The Army ordered a Court of Inquiry (CoI) on 8 November. Six witnesses were examined; Kamal Raj was the first.
The FIR reproduces parts of his deposition. Kaur alleges he admitted on oath that he had secretly accessed her phone and computer. He named a spyware called QuickSpy, which he said he had bought from a private detective, according to the FIR.
The Army dismissed his complaint, saying that no affair existed and her contact with the officer was strictly professional.
Based on the inquiry report, Kaur filed a defamation suit against her ex-husband in a Panchkula court. The court summoned the Army’s records of inquiry in that case.
Armed with Kamal Raj’s own claims, Kaur approached the police for an FIR.
Kaur said despite the clean chit by the Army inquiry, the damage was already done. Some of her clients came from Army circles, and she said she had lost several of them. She alleged that the three accused first tried to get her call detail records from service provider. But they failed because the law did not allow it. They then turned to spyware, she alleged.
According to the FIR, her calls, messages and movements were recorded. She also alleges that her car and her house were bugged, and that her clients’ data was taken from her devices.
Kaur says the complaint against her was meant to pressure into a mutual divorce. She says she was to give up alimony and child support. A decree of mutual divorce has since been passed, she says in the FIR. Her son lives with her.
She also says the stolen data is still with the accused and that she fears it will be used against her.
The complaint was made to the Deputy Commissioner of Police’s office on 9 May and marked on 11 May. It was sent for action to the Mansa Devi Complex police station. The case was registered after the inquiry.
The accused are booked under relevant sections of the Information Technology Act, 2008, and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). The FIR lists the period of the alleged offence as 1 July 2024 to 12 September 2026.
No arrest has been reported so far.
(Edited by Sugita Katyal)
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