A casual worker, Virender Kumar, employed at the Defence Ministry was arrested today for allegedly providing a forged identity card to a key accused in the Petroleum Ministry leaks case while police maintained that no sensitive documents were leaked or stolen from the Defence Ministry.
With the arrest of Virender, 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 had allegedly given the forged identity card to Lalta Parsad and also a paper with the official letter head.
Lalta Parsad and Ram Kumar Chubey were the first one's to be arrested in the case when the Crime Branch blew the lid on February 19.
This module stole documents from the petroleum ministry.
Cracking down on a suspected case of corporate espionage, Delhi Police on Thursday arrested two junior Oil Ministry officials and three other middlemen for allegedly leaking classified government documents to energy companies.
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