New Delhi: Santanu Saikia had today denied any links to the people who have stolen classified papers and claimed that ‘it’s a Rs 10,000 crore scam’.
Santanu Saikia is a former journalist who is now running a petro web portal.
Saikia had been arrested on Fridauy. He said, “Quote me, I was doing a cover up… It’s a Rs 10,000 crore scam.”
He was quoted as saying while coming out of the Delhi Police crime branch office.
Notify that Home Minister Rajnath Singh earlier on today said that those involved in the sensational corporate espionage scandal would not be spared and strictest punishment would be given to them.
He said that Delhi Police is investigation the case and it will soon unravel everything.
He said, “Jaldhi doodh ka doodh, paani ka paani ho jayega (Soon everything will be clear). No guilty person would be spared and strictest punishment would be given to them.”
The development comes after police arrested five senior executives from top energy firms and two consultants on Friday after Thursday’s arrest of five people. With this, the total number of arrests in the case rose to 12.
Joint Commissioner of Police (crime) Ravindra Yadav said, “We have arrested five persons. Shailesh Saxena from Reliance Industries (RIL), Vinay Kumar from Essar, KK Naik from Cairns, Subhash Chandra from Jubilant Energy and Rishi Anand from ADAG Reliance.”
According to Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ashok Chand, all these company executives were receivers of the stolen documents which have been recovered by police teams during raids from their establishments. Saxena is Manager, corporate affairs, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL); Chandra is senior executive, Jubilant Energy; Anand is DGM, Reliance ADAG; Vinay is DGM, Essar and Naik is GM, Cairns India.
Bureau Report
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