Oil paper leak: Documents recovered are ‘classified’, Petroleum Ministry tells Delhi court

The submissions were made by crime branch before Additional Sessions Judge Raj Kapoor, who is presently hearing the bail plea of five corporate executives — Shailesh Saxena of Reliance Industries Ltd, Vinay Kumar of Essar, Subhash Chandra from Jubilant Energy, Reliance ADAG DGM Rishi Anand and Cairns India’s K K Naik.

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Assistant Commissioner of Police K P S Malhotra told the court that none of the documents recovered in the present case are in “public domain”. The submissions were by Delhi Police on Wednesday after the court on April 10, while giving a “last chance,” had sought replies from the Secretary, Ministries of Home Affairs and Petroleum & Natural Gas, to ascertain the nature of the documents recovered by Delhi Police.

After the police made their submission, the defence counsel asked the prosecution to mention which documents stated to be “classified” belonged to which accused.

The court then observed, “I will not enter into their discretionary matters related to the investigation. They have the authority. You will know the details once the chargesheet is filed.”

After hearing the detailed submissions made by both defence and prosecution, the court said, “Investigation officer submits that investigation is likely to be completed and the challan (chargesheet) would follow accordingly. In the view of this, the matter is now adjourned to April 20.”