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| Court Acquits Accused In 35-Year-Ol |
| Court Acquits Accused In 35-Year-Old Official Secrets Act Case
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| INDIA
, 28-July-2016
13:4:25 PM |
| In a 35-year-old case, a special court today acquitted former personal assistant of a director in Ministry of Petroleum, Chemicals and Fertilisers and another official of the offence of leaking out secret information about setting up of ammonia plants in Maharashtra and Gujarat.
Special CBI judge Sanjeev Aggarwal absolved K L Arora, a retired public servant, and N G Sheth, the then regional manager of Industrial Consulting Bureau, of the offences of criminal conspiracy and criminal breach of trust by public servant of the IPC and provisions of the Official Secrets Act.
Advocate Satyanarain Vashisht, who represented Mr Sheth, said both the accused are over 75 years old and are at present out on bail.
Initially, there were seven accused of whom four died and one pleaded guilty and the court had framed charges against Mr Arora and Mr Sheth in 2012.
The CBI case dated back to 1979, when the Centre had awarded contracts for setting up ammonia plants at Thal-Vaishet in Maharashtra and Hazira in Gujarat to US-based M/s C F Braun & Company.
The decision taken by the Union government was, however, reversed and the contracts were awarded to some other firms from Denmark and the UK in August 1980.
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