Navy war room leak: Ex-IAF officer arrested

NEW DELHI: Continuing its probe into the Navy war room leak case, CBI arrested a former officer of Indian Air Force who is alleged to have supplied classified information to a woman acting as a conduit.

Former Wing Commander Sambhajee L Surve appeared before the sleuths of Anti-corruption branch of CBI who placed him under arrest after he failed to answer several posers from the interrogators, CBI sources said here on Monday.

Surve was produced before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Seema Maini who remanded him to five days of CBI custody.

Following a complaint from Surve's wife, the IAF counter-surveillance wing kept a tab on him during which they found him "in close contact" with Raj Rani Jaiswal who had been introduced to him by former naval commander Kulbushan Parashar already arrested in the case.

This surveillance blew the lid off the entire Navy war room leak case. The counter surveillance wing of IAF seized a pen drive from Surve whose examination showed that some classified documents of the Navy had been deleted from it. The Pen drive was sent for thorough analysis and it was found that some classified documents had been taken out from the Navy war room.

In a related development in the case, Jaiswal, Mukesh Bajaj and V K Jha were sent to CBI custody for three more days to facilitate the agency in unraveling the missing links in the case.