Ex-RAW official given bail in spying case

A city court granted bail to former Research and Analysis Wing official Brigadier Ujjal Dasgupta who was accused of passing sensitive inputs to a woman American diplomat posted in New Delhi in 2006.

A city court today granted bail to former Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) official Brigadier Ujjal Dasgupta who was accused of passing sensitive inputs to a woman American diplomat posted here in 2006.

Dasgupta is the third and last accused to get bail as Commodore (Retd) Mukesh Saini and a senior System Analyst Shib Shankar Paul who were his co-accused have already been released on bail by the Tees Hazari court here.

The court of Sessions Judge Inder Jeet Singh ordered to release Dasgupta,arrested in 2006 by the special cell of the Delhi Police,on a surety of Rs 50,000.

The sensational case came to light in June 2006 when Delhi Police claimed that it has arrested three persons — RAW official Brigadier Ujjal Dasgupta,Saini,who was formerly working with NSCS and Paul — on charges of passing secret information to American diplomat Rosanna Minchew.

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