In a major development, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday arrested a serving Indian Navy officer along with two retired ones in connection with the leakage of confidential information related to the modernisation of Kilo-class submarine.
- As per reports from ANI, top government officials told them that after the developments took place last month, the Indian Navy also ordered a high-level probe under a Vice Admiral and a Rear Admiral to probe the leakage of information and look for solutions to prevent any such incident in the future.
"After getting inputs from agencies concerned, the CBI arrested a serving Navy officer of the rank of Commander (Lt Col equivalent in Army) posted in Mumbai for passing on unauthorised information related to the Kilo-class submarine modernisation project to retired officers" the news agency quoted.
The CBI has been questioning a number of serving officers who were in touch with the arrested officers.
More arrests are possible in this case as the CBI has been monitoring the actions of a large number of ex-officers from all three services (Indian Army, Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force).
A number of cases in recent past have come up where defence personnel have been found compromised for leaking information to suspected Pakistani agencies virtually.
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