Delhi Police Commissioner B.S. Bassi on Saturday said the five senior executives of top private energy companies arrested in connection with the corporate espionage case would be produced before the court and added that his men would seek for police remand of the accused.
"We have arrested the five accused, the interrogation is going on. They will be produced before the court, we will request the court to give those accused police remand so that we can further interrogate them," he told the media here.
Bassi further said the recipients of the leaked documents were also interrogated.
"The documents that have been stolen were further sold and the recipients of the stolen property have been taken in control and were being questioned by us," he said.
The executives from five energy companies - Shailesh Saxena (Manager, Corporate Affairs, RIL), Vinay Kumar (DGM, Essar), KK Naik (GM, Cairns India), Subhash Chandra (Senior Executive, Jubilant Energy) and Rishi Anand (DGM, ADAG Reliance), were arrested by the police late on Friday evening.
Two other persons arrested yesterday are Santanu Saikia, who runs energy portal, and Prayas Jain, an energy consultant. With this, the number of people arrested in this corporate espionage case has reached 12.
Santanu Saikia and Prayas Jain have been sent to police custody until February 23 along with two others, who were arrested earlier. Three others are already in judicial custody for 14 days.
