Forwarded from: William Knowles <wk@private> http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1480861.cms TIMES NEWS NETWORK APRIL 07, 2006 NEW DELHI: A month after the defence ministry handed over the Navy war room leak case, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday arrested three former naval officers and conducted raids at 17 places, including the premises of Ravi Shankaran, kin of Navy chief Admiral Arun Prakash, in connection with the case. The arrested included one woman, who was used a honey trap, for criminal conspiracy. The CBI, which has registered an FIR against nine people, arrested Lt Commander (Retd) Kulbhushan Parashar, who has been reportedly identified as the end user of the classified documents, at Indira Gandhi International Airport as he returned from London by an Air India flight on Wednesday night. Sources said that the CBI had filed the FIR over 15 days ago but had been waiting for Parashar to return before starting arrests and conducting raids. Raids were conducted in 17 locations in New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Muzzafarpur, Chandigarh and Goa. Another key accused in the case Lt Commander (Retd) Ravishankaran, the nephew of Navy chief Admiral Arun Prakash, is still in London and the CBI is waiting for his return from London before proceeding against him, He is also named in the CBI FIR. The factory premises of Shanks Oceaneering belonging to Ravishankaran in Mumbai and Goa were also raided. The CBI also raided the house of Manish Vohra, the chartered accountant for Parashar and Ravi Shankaran. The others who were arrested on Wednesday include two ex-commanders of the Indian Navy Virender Rana, who was arrested from Dwarka in Delhi, and Kashyap Kumar, who was arrested from Muzaffarpur. The CBI also arrested Rajrani Jaiswal and Mukesh Bajaj from Pune on Thursday afternoon. The other four named in the FIR apart from Ravishankaran are ex-captain of the Indian Navy Kashyap Kumar, wing commander (Retd) S K Kohli and ex-wing commander of Indian Air Force Sambhajee L Surve, from whom classified naval information was found and the whole case unravelled. The CBI is investigating the role of Rajrani Jaiswal and till now have concluded that she was used as a honey trap to entice naval officers like air force officer Wing Commander S L Surve, and passed information on to Parashar. She has also been charged under 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code. The FIR has been registered on the basis of information received from the ministry of defence that three officers of the Indian Navy and one officer of the Indian Air Force in collusion with private persons and retired officers and others conspired to unauthorisedly trade off classified documents and information relating defence ministry. The entire leak was discovered due to an illicit relationship between Jaiswal and Indian Air Force ex-wing commander Sambhajee L Surve, who is also named in the FIR. Surve’s wife had complained to the Air Force. During that investigation, the Air Force counter surveillance team stumbled on to a pen drive in Surve’s possession that led them to the entire war room deal. The Navy and the Air Force both conducted inquiries and three naval officers were thrown out of the Navy. The CBI was given the findings of both the inquiries. The CBI has now asked the other four to join the investigation. Surve has been in touch with the CBI but sources said that his whereabouts is unknown. The war room leak case has led to speculation that the Scorpene deal is also linked somehow to the case. CBI spokesperson Mohanty said that all aspects of the case are being investigated. Parashar and Rana were produced before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Seema Maini at her residence, who remanded them to 14 days of CBI custody. Jha was being brought here after his transit remand was taken from Muzzafarpur. *==============================================================* "Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." Gen Alfred. M. Gray, USMC ================================================================ C4I.org - Computer Security, & Intelligence - http://www.c4i.org *==============================================================* _________________________________ LayerOne 2006 : Pasadena Hilton : Pasadena, CA Infomation Security and Technology Conference http://layerone.info
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