War-room leak chargesheet: CBI cites 7,000 pages of secret data

Sources told The Indian Express that instead of one, three pen drives were handed over to the CBI in March. Of them, two were recovered from S L Surve, dismissed IAF Wing Commander, and one from Vijender Rana, dismissed Naval Commander. One pen drive handed over by Surve had been electronically tampered with and all files were deleted. These were analysed with help of experts from the Andhra Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory,

According to the CBI’s case, the salient information that was illegally passed on to defence agents Ravi Shankaran and Kulbhushan Parashar include:

• Details of the Navy’s communication network including the network connecting warships and submarines.

• Navy and IAF’s proposals for disputed territories and disputed border areas.

• Perspective plans for India’s air defence systems and proposals for next generation upgrades and war-gaming.

• Deployment details of Navy and IAF, including presentations made by top Commanders to Defence Chiefs.

• Army’s deployment patterns and assessments of areas of vulnerability.

• Border deployment details of the Border Security Force and future deployment proposals.

CBI officials said hard-disks from the offices and residences of the three officers (the third is Vinod Kumar Jha) as well as from the LAN (Local Area Network) of the War Room were also carried to Hyderabad and the ‘‘uncompromised’’ files in the LAN were viewed.