The Indian Navy has been providing assistance in the ongoing investigations by the Central agency and providing its men for questioning by investigating officers, defence sources said. The CBI has been questioning a number of other serving officers who were in touch with the arrested officers, they said.
"After getting inputs from agencies concerned, the CBI arrested a serving Navy officer of the rank of Commander (Lt Col equivalent in Army) who is currently posted in Mumbai for passing on unauthorised information related to the Kilo-class submarine modernisation project to retired officers," said sources. Top government sources told ANI 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 ways to prevent such incidents in the future.
The investigation is still on in this case and ED is ensuring that prime accuses Nirav Modi can be brought back to India.NEW DELHI: In a significant development, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested a serving Indian Navy officer along with two retired ones in connection with the leakage of confidential information related to the modernisation of a Kilo-class submarine.
Thereafter, government passed on the investigation to Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) which conducted a series of raids. In the midnight filing with the bourses, PNB management said that a few of its employees in connivance with billionaire diamond merchant Nirav Modi and his associates issued fake Letters of Undertaking (LoUs) to a few overseas branches of Indian banks. The scam amount has now inflated to Rs 13,000 crore. On 14 February, PNB informed the stock exchanges that a Rs 11, 400 crore has occurred at its Brady House branch in Mumbai. She also said that it’s wrong to use the world ‘cancer’ with shame as various cancer patients are cured and lead productive lives. One should be ashamed of corruption, that is a crime, not cancer, Chairman of Chennai based Cancer Institute (WIA) wrote in the letter to Mehta, PTI reported. Sunil Mehta had used the word ‘cancer’ to draw comparison with Rs 13,000 crore scam unearthed in one of the Mumbai-based branches of PNB saying that bank is trying to resolve the cancer that has been going on since 2011. The Ramon Magsaysay Award winner and famous oncologist wrote a letter to PNB chief advising him to refrain from drawing any such parallels between the two as the deadly ailment can’t ever be mixed with corruption, PTI reported. “Cancer shouldn’t be mixed with cancer, ever,” said globally renowned doctor V Shanta while chastising Punjab National Bank (PNB) MD Sunil Mehta who used the world ‘cancer’ to describe Rs 13,000 crore scam at the Brady House branch of the bank by billionaire diamond merchant Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi.
PNB chief Sunil Mehta had used the word ‘cancer’ to draw comparison with Rs 13,000 crore scam.