After the shocking revelation of the corporate espionage scandal, but for the first time, details of the case have started to surface, followed by a detailed charge sheet filed by Delhi Police in the Scandal. The detailed copy of the charge sheet reveals that from the 80 sets of the photocopied documents, recovered from Santanu Saikia of Indian Petro, about 23 copies were stated confidential or secret in nature.
According to the reports sent to the Delhi police from the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, majority of the documents were not in public domain. The charge sheet shows that a significant amount of Rs. 2.5 lakhs per month was being paid to the accused, Lalta Prasad and Rakesh Kumar. These payments were being made by a group, which includes - Shailesh Saxena from Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Vinay Kumar from Essar, KK Naik from Cairns India, Subhash Chandra from Jubilant Energy, and Rishi Anand from Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (Reliance ADAG), energy consultant Prayas Jain, and Shantanu Saikia.
The charge sheet even mentioned that bank statements of the accused were analysed which revealed that there were significant transactions by cash and cheques despite that fact that both were unemployed.
The authorities recovered 7 set of photocopied documents from Prayas Jain, an energy consultant. Out of the seven, six documents were marked secret or confidential and none were in any public domain.
Discussing about the role of the accused, Delhi Police authorised stated, “Their names have cropped up in the disclosure statements of the accused and the sensitive documents have been recovered from their possession”. On Monday, court took cognisance of the charge sheet filed by Delhi Police against the 13 accused arrested in connection with petroleum ministry document leak case.
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