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CBI books freelance journalist of a US-based portal for spying

Via PTI

NEW DELHI:  The CBI has registered an FIR in opposition to a contract journalist for allegedly accumulating delicate knowledge associated with the Defence Analysis Construction Organisation (DRDO) and the Military, and sharing them with intelligence businesses of international nations, officers mentioned on Tuesday.

Following the FIR, the company carried out searches on premises connected to Vivek Raghuvanshi, indexed as India correspondent of a US-based portal on defence and strategic affairs on its web site, and other people on the subject of him at 12 places in Jaipur and the Nationwide Capital Area (NCR), they mentioned.

The company has booked Raghuvanshi underneath Phase 3 (spying) of the Reliable Secrets and techniques Act learn with Phase 120-B (prison conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.

A lot of delicate paperwork had been recovered all the way through the searches and despatched for felony scrutiny, the officers mentioned.

Resources mentioned the company has introduced an exhaustive probe to search out Raghuvanshi’s accomplices in India and out of the country.

He was once allegedly accumulating delicate knowledge and minute information about the development of quite a lot of DRDO initiatives, the CBI alleged.

He was once additionally accumulating main points of long term procurement plans of the Indian militia which will have adversely affected the rustic’s strategic preparedness, the company alleged.

“It’s alleged that he accumulated and handed on delicate information about the longer term procurement of Indian militia which divulge the strategic preparedness of the rustic but even so labeled communications and knowledge in terms of nationwide safety, main points of the strategic and diplomatic talks of India with our pleasant nations and sharing such labeled knowledge with intelligence businesses of international nations,” the CBI spokesperson mentioned.

NEW DELHI:  The CBI has registered an FIR in opposition to a contract journalist for allegedly accumulating delicate knowledge associated with the Defence Analysis Construction Organisation (DRDO) and the Military, and sharing them with intelligence businesses of international nations, officers mentioned on Tuesday.

Following the FIR, the company carried out searches on premises connected to Vivek Raghuvanshi, indexed as India correspondent of a US-based portal on defence and strategic affairs on its web site, and other people on the subject of him at 12 places in Jaipur and the Nationwide Capital Area (NCR), they mentioned.

The company has booked Raghuvanshi underneath Phase 3 (spying) of the Reliable Secrets and techniques Act learn with Phase 120-B (prison conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

A lot of delicate paperwork had been recovered all the way through the searches and despatched for felony scrutiny, the officers mentioned.

Resources mentioned the company has introduced an exhaustive probe to search out Raghuvanshi’s accomplices in India and out of the country.

He was once allegedly accumulating delicate knowledge and minute information about the development of quite a lot of DRDO initiatives, the CBI alleged.

He was once additionally accumulating main points of long term procurement plans of the Indian militia which will have adversely affected the rustic’s strategic preparedness, the company alleged.

“It’s alleged that he accumulated and handed on delicate information about the longer term procurement of Indian militia which divulge the strategic preparedness of the rustic but even so labeled communications and knowledge in terms of nationwide safety, main points of the strategic and diplomatic talks of India with our pleasant nations and sharing such labeled knowledge with intelligence businesses of international nations,” the CBI spokesperson mentioned.