NEW DELHI, May 1:
A Delhi court here today fixed May 7 for considering the charge sheet filed against three arrested accused, including two government officials, in the corporate espionage case for allegedly possessing “sensitive” documents relating to various ministries.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Satish Kumar Arora posted the matter for the next date after the proceedings could not take place today due to the ongoing lawyers’ strike against the delay in enhancing pecuniary jurisdiction of trial courts.
The Crime branch of Delhi Police had on April 23 filed the charge sheet against Lokesh Sharma, an employee of a Noida- based consultancy firm, Jitender Nagpal, PS to Joint Secretary in Forest and Environment Ministry, and Vipan Kumar, PA to a UPSC member.
The court had, however, said there were several unanswered questions in the probe, including as to how the recovered documents influenced the decision-making of those companies or the government.
It had also said that the police needed to establish the link between series of events.
In the charge sheet, police has named 19 persons as witnesses in the case.
Earlier, the police had told the court that some laptops, monitors, software and electronic datas were recovered from the accused and some of the data were found deleted from the laptops.
It had claimed that Lokesh was getting around Rs 14,000 per month in his bank account from Noida-based consultancy firm Infraline Energy, one of the beneficiary companies, which suggest that he was an employee of the company.
The Police had arrested Lokesh on February 23, claiming that “sensitive” documents pertaining to ministries of Coal, Power and others were recovered from his possession.
Jitender and Vipan were arrested on February 25 and their names figure on the same FIR.
An FIR was registered by the Crime Branch under sections of trespass, theft, criminal conspiracy and fraud in this case separately from the one involved in the petroleum ministry racket in which the police had on April 18 filed charge sheet against 13 persons including five corporate executives.
In another FIR related to this matter, Crime Branch has charge sheeted 13 arrested accused in the case.
The accused arrested in the case are journalist Shantanu Saikia, Jubilant Energy’s official Subhash Chandra, Lalta Prasad, Rakesh Kumar, Prayas Jain, Ishwar Singh, Asharam, Rajkumar Chaubey, Shailesh Saxena of Reliance Industries Ltd, Vinay Kumar of Essar, Rishi Anand of Reliance ADAG, Cairns India’s K K Nayak and one Virend. (PTI)
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