A senior Army officer’s wife was booked for espionage by Jammu and Kashmir Police for sharing sensitive information with “Chinese agents” who, posing as academicians, made her write articles on defence issues, said an official source on Sunday.

The Gandhi Nagar Police Station in Jammu registered the FIR (Number 290/2026) against the wife of the Army officer, a resident of Telangana, under Sections 3 and 5 of the Official Secrets Act, 1923, along with Sections 152 and 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), said the source.