BJP demands JPC probe

Hitting out at the UPA Government for 8216;8216;compromising with national security,8217;8217; BJP president Rajnath Singh on Wednesday sought the appointment of a joint parliamentary committee JPC to probe leaks from the National Security Council NSC secretariat and the Navy8217;s war-room. Rajnath demanded that the Government identify the countries behind the two espionage rackets and declare the people involved person non grata.

In the NSC case, Ujjwal Dasgupta, a director of RAW Research and Analysis Wing, has been told not to return to work and all his files and computers have been seized. SS Paul, a computer systems analyst, has been arrested and his house raided. Mukesh Saini, a Navy commander, who headed the NSC secretariat8217;s national information security co-ordination cell, has been questioned. The NSC, set up after the Kargil conflict, collates inputs provided by IB, RAW, MEA, Military Intelligence and Defence Intelligence Agency DIA and prepares strategic forecast for all national security issues.

On the war room leak case, Rajnath Singh said the hacking of 7,000 pages of defence secrets mapping the deployment of naval, air force and army personnel along with their future projections was a 8216;8216;too serious matter to be overlooked.8217;8217; Rajnath Singh said the gap of four months between CBI raids and the registration of an FIR showed that some people 8216;8216;are out to help the accused destroy evidence8221;.

Two get bail in war room leak: A Delhi court on Wednesday granted bail to Mukesh Bajaj and Raj Rani Jaiswal, two of the six accused in the navy war room leak case. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Seema Maini released the two accused, who were arrested on April 6 this year by the CBI from Pune, on bail on the ground that 90 days had expired from the date on which they were first produced in court. The court observed that the CBI has conceded that the investigation against the two was not yet complete and under the circumstances it did not see any reason for not granting bail.