India, June 5 -- The Supreme Court on Friday turned down the bail plea of Haryana-based travel blogger Jyoti Malhotra, who is accused of sharing sensitive information with Pakistan, observing that national security cannot be compromised at any cost.

Terming the charges against Malhotra "very serious," a bench of justices Dipankar Datta and SC Sharma dismissed her petition challenging a March 7 order of the Punjab and Haryana high court, which had refused her bail on identical grounds.

When Malhotra's lawyer argued that she had been incarcerated for over a year since her arrest on May 16 last year and had no prior criminal antecedents, the bench retorted that any defence she had was a subject matter of trial. The court noted that she all...