The Delhi Police on Thursday arrested Jitender Nagpal, personal assistant to a joint secretary in the Forest and Environment Ministry, and Vipan Kumar, a personal assistant to a member of the Union Public Service Commission in connection with the corporate espionage case related to the natural gas and oil ministry.
With these arrests, the number of people arrested has gone up to 16.
Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi had on Tuesday ruled out the involvement of senior-level officials in the case, saying those who sought the government documents relied mainly on lower level employees to get the job done.
The Delhi Police had earlier on Monday arrested Lokesh, an energy consultant, for allegedly leaking information from the Coal and Power Ministry and providing unauthorized documents to certain individuals for money. Lokesh has been sent to five-day police custody.
Earlier last week, two energy consultants Santanu Saikia and Prayas Jain, and five senior executives from top energy firms identified as Shailesh Saxena from RIL, Vinay Kumar from Essar, KK Naik from Cairns, Subhash Chandra from Jubilant Energy and Rishi Anand from ADAG Reliance had been arrested in the case.