New Delhi: Delhi Police roday arrested two more persons in connection with the corporate espionage case. “Vipan was earlier posted at Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and he was getting secret documents with the help of his contacts mainly from there,” he added.”Jitender Nagpal, PS to Joint Secretary in Forest and Environment ministry and Vipan Kumar, PA to a UPSC member were arrested,” Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Ravindra Yadav said.
The two have been arrested in the connection with the second
in which five people were named earlier including Lokesh, an energy consultant who was arrested on Monday by the Crime Branch busting the second module in the corporate espionage case. Nagpal and Vipan used to provide stolen documents to Lokesh,” Yadav said.
Cracking down on a suspected case of corporate espionage, Delhi Police had on last Thursday arrested two junior Oil Ministry officials and three other middlemen for allegedly leaking classified government documents to energy companies.
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