New Delhi: A casual worker employed at the Defence Ministry was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly providing forged identity card to a key accused in Petroleum Ministry leaks case while police maintained that no sensitive documents were leaked or stolen from the Defence Ministry.
With this, 13 people have been arrested in the corporate espionage case related to Petroleum Ministry, while one person was arrested yesterday on charge of leaking confidential documents from Coal and Power ministries. Seven persons were also detained in this connection.
According to the police, Virender Kumar, employed as a casual worker at Ministry of Defence, had allegedly given a forged ID card to Lalta Parsad and also a paper with the official letter head.
“This document was used by Ram Kumar Chaubey to prepare the fake permission of his vehicle and projected it as being hired by Government of India,” said a senior police official.
However, he added, “no sensitive document has been stolen from the Defence Ministry”.
Lalta Parsad and Ram Kumar Chaubey were first to be arrested in the case when the Crime Branch blew the lid on February 19.
Virendra Kumar was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the first FIR registered by Delhi Police.
This module stole documents from the Petroleum Ministry.
