Prominent US-India Policy Expert Ashley Tellis Arrested for Retaining Classified Documents

The US FBI has arrested Ashley Tellis, a highly influential Indian-American foreign policy scholar, on charges of unlawfully retaining classified national defence information. Tellis, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is accused of taking top-secret documents from a Pentagon office where he was a contractor. While not charged with espionage, the Department of Justice noted the case presents a "grave breach of trust" and has sparked shockwaves in Washington's foreign policy circles and political debate in India.