A Delhi court today allowed five days custodial interrogation of a person, arrested for allegedly possessing sensitive documents of ministries of Coal, Power and others, in the corporate espionage case.
Lokesh, an employee of a Noida-based consultancy firm, was arrested by the Crime Branch of Delhi Police and produced before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Satish Kumar Arora, who accepted the plea that custodial interrogation of accused was required to unravel the truth as "sensitive" documents were recovered from his possession.
The Crime Branch has registered a separate FIR under sections of trespass, theft, criminal conspiracy and fraud in this case separately from the one involved in the petroleum ministry racket in which 12 people have been arrested so far.
The police said the new set of documents were "sensitive" documents" and they were examining the same.
"Various sensitive documents of Ministries of Coal, Power and others have been recovered. A fake government ID card has also been recovered from Lokesh," the police told Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Satish Kumar Arora while seeking custodial interrogation of the accused.
During the hearing, the counsel for Lokesh opposed the police plea.
At least six persons have already been picked up for questioning from Shastri Bhavan in this case by the Crime Branch. Search and raids were continuing in Delhi and NCR in this connection.
Cracking down on a suspected case of corporate espionage, Delhi Police on February 19 arrested two junior Oil Ministry officials and three other middlemen for allegedly leaking classified government documents to energy companies.
On February 20, 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, K K Naik from Cairns, Subhash Chandra from Jubilant Energy and Rishi Anand from ADAG Reliance were arrested.
