Nishant Pitti, founder and chairman of travel company EaseMyTrip, has accused a competing travel aggregator of having a security loophole in their website. He claimed the platform has links to China and risks compromising sensitive data of Indian defence personnel who use it to book discounted tickets. “Indian Armed Forces book discounted tickets through a platform largely owned by China, where they enter Defence ID, route, and date. Our enemies now know where our soldiers are traveling,” Pitti said, sharing screenshots to highlight the vulnerability. One image showed that to access armed forces discounts, users must provide their Defence ID.

In a recent interview, Pitti also stated that his company was the first to issue a travel advisory against Turkey and Azerbaijan, cautioning against travel to those countries after discovering their support for Pakistan. “After our advisory, many travel agencies followed suit,” he told ANI.

The boycott calls followed Turkey and Azerbaijan openly siding with Pakistan during the India-Pakistan conflict triggered by Operation Sindoor. Launched on May 7, the operation targeted nine terrorist infrastructure sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, in response to the Pahalgam attack on April 22, which killed 26 people.

India’s government described its actions as “focused, measured, and non-escalatory,” emphasizing that no Pakistani military facilities were targeted and highlighting the restraint exercised in choosing targets and execution methods.