New Delhi: A naval officer who serves and two who has retired, along with two “personal personal”, has been captured by the CBI in connection with the alleged leaking of confidential information related to the modernization of the conventional submarine class kilos.
The Navy also conducts internal investigations, led by the opposite, into this regard to investigate the leakage of information and suggest steps to prevent these incidents in the future.
There may be more arrests in this case, and it is unclear if foreign intelligence agencies are involved in information leakage.
The officer serving the rank of the commander (equivalent to the LT-Colonel in the Army) was arrested by the CBI from the Western Navy Command in Mumbai last month.
Among the other four defendants, one retired as a commodore and another as a commander.
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“Acting on the information provided by intelligence agencies, the serving officers were arrested for allegedly submitting information related to the modernization supplier of Kilo and the Sindhughosh Russian class submarine to those accused of others, which seemed to work for several defense companies, as a substitute for bribes, “A source said.
The CBI has searched 19 places, including Delhi, Noida, Mumbai and Hyderabad, and has confiscated several computers and other evidence.
The investigation body also questioned a number of serving officials, related to the defendant.
Navy, in a statement on Tuesday, said, “Alleged information on the leakage of administrative and commercial properties with several unauthorized personnel came to light.
This is being investigated by the right government institutions, with full support from the Navy.” The Navy has been Enter to increase the modernization of four of the eight diesel-electric submarines of the Sindhughos class, with each cost around Rs 1,400 Crore, in Russia and India.
The Navy, by chance, has been beaten badly by the famous warning case in his headquarters in New Delhi in 2005, which leads to the arrest and dismissal of three navies and one IAF official.
The CBI then said that the 7,000 page surprising information was “ compromised “from the marine war room and the air defense directorate at the air headquarters in the episode.
The armed forces have also been designed by several cases of personnel captured in honey trap online – basically intelligence operations to tempt the first and then squeeze someone to divulge confidential information – in recent years.
The main case was the arrest of a group captain (equivalent to a colonel), which was posted as a joint director (operation) at the air headquarters in New Delhi, in February 2018.