New Delhi, Oct. 15 -- Indian-origin Ashley Tellis, 64, a US foreign policy expert who had access to top-secret information, has been arrested after accusations of illegally possessing classified national defense documents and reportedly holding multiple meetings with Chinese government officials, according to court documents seen by HT.

On October 13, he was charged in a Virginia district court with breaching federal laws concerning related to the retention of national defense information, according to a Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI) criminal complaint and affidavit.

During a court-approved search on October 11, federal investigators uncovered over 1,000 pages of documents labeled top secret or secret at Tellis's residence in Vi...