Ashley Tellis, a leading U.S.-India relations expert who has advised successive U.S. administrations, was arrested over the weekend and charged with unlawful retention of national defense information, including more than a thousand pages marked top secret and secret, news agency Reuters reported, citing court documents.

Tellis, 64, who served on the National Security Council under former President George W. Bush and is listed in an FBI affidavit as an unpaid adviser to the State Department and a Pentagon contractor, is also a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington-based think tank, Reuters added.

Tellis was born in India and is now a naturalised US citizen,

According to the FBI affidavit seen by Reuters , in September and October this year, T

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