CBI Tuesday filed two separate chargesheets against six persons, including a serving commander of the Indian Navy and two retired officers, for allegedly leaking information related to an ongoing submarine project in return for illegal gratification.
The agency had in September arrested five persons, including serving and retired officers, and has since arrested one more serving officer of the Indian Navy.
“The chargesheeted officers have been identified as Commander Ajit Kumar Pandey, Commander (retired) S J Singh and Commodore (Retired) Randeep Singh apart from three private individuals who are office bearers of a Hyderabad-based company that sought the information,” CBI sources said. All the accused have been chargesheeted under various sections of Indian Penal Code and Prevention of Corruption Act.
The three private individuals have been identified as Executive Director of Allen Reinforced Plastics Ltd T P Shastri and company directors N V Rao and K Chandrashekhar.
“Another serving officer has been arrested in the case recently but he has not been chargesheeted yet. There are many serving and retired officers under the scanner. The officers shared information of commercial nature with certain private companies, one of them being a Korean company, with which one of the arrested retired officers was working. The investigation is still on,” a CBI officer said.
On September 2, CBI had conducted searches at 19 locations in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and
