Security officials have detained a 29-year-old Chinese man, Hu Congtai, after he entered Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir without permission. Hu arrived in Delhi on November 19 on a tourist visa meant for Buddhist religious sites. Ignoring rules, he flew to Leh on November 20 without registering at the Foreigners Regional Registration Office. Hu toured Zanskar for three days and reached Srinagar on December 1. His phone showed searches about CRPF deployments and Article 370, which ended Jammu and Kashmir’s special status in 2019. Hu stayed in an unregistered guest house in Srinagar and visited a Buddhist site at Harwan, a place where a terrorist encounter had occurred last year. He also visited Awantipur ruins near the army's Victor Force base in South Kashmir and several local landmarks like Shankracharya hills, Hazratbal, and the Mughal Garden. Hu used an Indian SIM card bought from the open market. Officials are questioning him, with possible deportation as the likely outcome. Hu graduated in Physics from Boston University and has traveled to the US, New Zealand, Brazil, Fiji, and Hong Kong. His visa was only for certain religious sites, making his travel beyond those areas illegal.