‘Corporates paid large sums to procure files’

April 21, 2015 02:48 am | Updated November 16, 2021 05:15 pm IST - New Delhi:

The Delhi Police in the charge sheet filed in the documents theft case allege that corporate executives paid large sums of money every month to procure stolen confidential documents from the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.

They allegedly used to obtain these documents from Lalta Prasad and Rakesh Kumar, who allegedly stole them from the Ministry and sold to these executives for regular monthly payments.

The Crime Branch had arrested Lalta Prasad, Rakesh Kumar and another accused Raj Kumar Chaubey outside the Shastri Bhawan, housing the Ministry, by laying a trap and recovered a large number of documents of the Ministry from them on February 17 this year.

The investigating officers seized 50 sets of documents pertaining to the Ministry from the Gopal Das Bhawan office at Connaught Place of Shailesh Saxena of the Reliance Industries Limited; four sets of documents from Vinay Kumar of Essar from his Prakash Deep Building office on Tolstoy Marg; and nine sets of documents from K.K. Nayak of Cairn India at his office at DLF Atria Building in Gurgaon.

They also seized four sets of documents from Rishi Anand of Reliance ADAG, six sets of documents from Subhash Chandra of the Jubiliant Energy from his houses, seven sets of documents from Prayas Jain, CEO of Metis Business Solution Private Limited and 80 sets of documents from South Delhi’s Defence Colony residence, and the Shahpur Jat office of former journalist Santanu Saikia, the 44-page chargesheet said.

Prayas Jain allegedly used to pay Rs. 70,000, Santanu Saikia Rs. 50,000, Shailesh Saxena Rs. 30,000, Subhsh Chandra Rs. 15,000, Rishi Anand Rs. 20,000, Vinay Kumar 45,000 and K.K. Nayak Rs. 20,000 per month to Lalta Prasad and Rakesh Kumar for obtaining the Ministry documents. The charge sheet alleges that the analysis revealed that there were significant transactions by cheque and cash.

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