Suhel Seth expresses' delight' over arrest of Petroleum Ministry officials

Corporate writer Suhel Seth on Thursday expressed his 'delight' over the arrest of Petroleum Ministry officials for allegedly leaking classified government documents.

"I have always said that there is continuously a nexus between politics, corporates and the media. My belief is that this is a 'manthan', this is a churning. I am delighted that they have been arrested," Seth told ANI here.

"I am a great believer. Even when the 2G thing happened, I was the first person to go on public record to say if you catch a corporate leader, who has violated the laws of the land, arrest him," he added.

Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi earlier this evening confirmed that five people had been arrested for their alleged involvement in the leaking of classified documents from the Petroleum Ministry.

"Some people used to leak government documents papers from the government offices in an unauthorised manner for reward. On the basis of this information, we set up a trap at Shastri Bhawan. Three people were arrested with some classified papers. They were interrogated and on the basis of that interrogation, two more people have been detained," Bassi told reporters here.

"Besides them, on the basis of interrogation of the accused who were arrested, we identified the recipients of the documents and we are examining them. We will conduct further investigation," he added.

The Police Commissioner informed that those arrested were temporary multi-tasking staff in Shastri Bhawan and had been indulging in such activities for some time.

"These people used fake identities to enter the building, had duplicate keys, they stole the documents and photo-copied them," he added.