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Oil paper leak case: Delhi court takes cognisance of chargesheet filed against accused

According to sources, provisions of the stringent Official Secrets Act have not been invoked against the accused.

The Delhi court on Monday took cognizance of chargesheet filed against 13 accused in connection with the leak of documents from the Petroleum Ministry.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sanjay Khanagwal took cognizance of chargesheet filed by Delhi police in the case and directed police to supply documents related to it to the accused.

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The court had now posted the matter for further hearing for May 18. ‎The crime branch of Delhi police have formally charged 13 accused under various sections of the IPC including cheating, forgery, trespass, theft, common intent and criminal conspiracy.

According to sources, provisions of the stringent Official Secrets Act have not been invoked against the accused.

Five corporate executives are among the accused in the case. They are RIL corporate affairs manager Shailesh Saxena, Jubilant Energy senior executive Subash Chandra, Essar deputy general manager Vinay Kumar, Reliance ADAG deputy general manager Rishi Anand, and Cairns India general manager K.K. Naik.

Former journalist Santanu Saikia, who now runs a web portal, and Prayas Jain, a Melbourne-based energy consultant, were also arrested by Delhi Police in the case.

The other accused are Lalta Prasad, 36, and Rakesh Kumar, 30 – both brothers and residents of Delhi, Rajkumar Chaubey, 39, a resident of Ghaziabad, government employees Asharam, 58, and Ishwar Singh, 56 and Virender Kumar, employed as a casual worker in the defence ministry.

Kaunain Sheriff M is an award-winning investigative journalist and the National Health Editor at The Indian Express. He is the author of Johnson & Johnson Files: The Indian Secrets of a Global Giant, an investigation into one of the world’s most powerful pharmaceutical companies. With over a decade of experience, Kaunain brings deep expertise in three areas of investigative journalism: law, health, and data. He currently leads The Indian Express newsroom’s in-depth coverage of health. His work has earned some of the most prestigious honours in journalism, including the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) Award, and the Mumbai Press Club’s Red Ink Award. Kaunain has also collaborated on major global investigations. He was part of the Implant Files project with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which exposed malpractices in the medical device industry across the world. He also contributed to an international investigation that uncovered how a Chinese big-data firm was monitoring thousands of prominent Indian individuals and institutions in real time. Over the years, he has reported on several high-profile criminal trials, including the Hashimpura massacre, the 2G spectrum scam, and the coal block allocation case. Within The Indian Express, he has been honoured three times with the Indian Express Excellence Award for his investigations—on the anti-Sikh riots, the Vyapam exam scam, and the abuse of the National Security Act in Uttar Pradesh. ... Read More

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