A casual worker in the Defence Ministry has been arrested for allegedly providing forged identity card to a key accused in Petroleum Ministry leaks case but Delhi Police says it has not come across loss of documents from Defence Ministry.
With the arrest of Defence Ministry staffer Virendra Kumar (33), thirteen people have been so far arrested in the corporate espionage case related to Petroleum Ministry.
One person was arrested yesterday on the charge of leaking confidential documents from Coal and Power ministries.
Seven persons who were detained for questioning yesterday were called for examination again today which continued till late evening.
They were identified as Lalbabu, Ranjeet Mahto, both of them from Coal Ministry, while Bhupendra, Amit, Kamal Kishor, Virendra and Surendra are from Petroleum Ministry. Meanwhile, raids continued across Delhi and NCR by the police.
Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi told reporters that police has so far not come across any evidence that senior officials of any ministry were involved.
He also said that investigators have so far only come across "leakage and theft of documents from Petroleum, Power and Coal Ministry and not from any other department".
"Investigation so far has revealed that the people who used to procure government documents used to rely on the employees who are the lowest on the ladder. They used to tell them that this person is the target and bring all the documents you find in his office.
"They used to identify the document of their choice from the bunch. So far we have not come across the name of any senior officer and neither have we had any evidence relying on which we can say so," said Bassi.
