Espionage case: Defence ministry staffer arrested

February 24, 2015 20:17

A worker in the defence ministry has been arrested for allegedly providing forged identity card to a key accused in the 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 the 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 the coal ministry, while Bhupendra, Amit, Kamal Kishor, Virendra and Surendra are from the petroleum ministry.

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