Ashley Tellis, an expert on South Asian affairs, was arrested after the F.B.I. said federal agents found hundreds of pages of sensitive government records at his home in Virginia.

Ashley Tellis, a prominent Indian-American national security expert and long-time US adviser, has been accused of hoarding classified documents and repeatedly meeting Chinese officials, stirring concern over possible Beijing ties and jolting Washington's foreign policy circles.

The former National Security Council staffer and senior adviser to the U.S. ambassador to India was arrested after FBI agents raided his home.

Ashley Tellis, 64, served on the National Security Council under former President George W Bush, and is identified in an FBI court affidavit as an unpaid adviser to the State Department and a Pentagon contractor.

Mumbai-born  Indian-American defence expert who was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) at his home in Vienna, Virginia, over the weekend. Significantly, Sanjeev Sanyal, economist and a member of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council known for his close

Tellis, in his 2023 essay for Foreign Affairs, wrote that India’s push for a multipolar world, its insistence on maintaining strategic independence, and its reluctance to closely align with Washington could limit how far the partnership can go.

The arrest of US foreign policy expert Ashley Tellis marks a stunning fall for a man once hailed as one of the key architects of the India-US nuclear deal. In recent years, Tellis has been one of the sharpest critics of the Narendra Modi-led government.

Ashley Tellis, a State Department employee and Department of War contractor, is accused of taking classified documents and meeting Chinese officials.