Corporate espionage case: 5 sent to police custody;

corporate espionage case The case of leakage of classified documents from government offices gets murkier. A Delhi court on Tuesday sent three government officials and two others to two days police custody for their alleged role in the Corporate espionage case.
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Special Judge SC Rajan allowed the probe agency to quiz three government employees -Ashok Kumar Singh, Lala Ram Sharma and Daljeet Singh along with chartered accountant Khemchand Gandhi and Paresh Chimanlal Buddhadev, a partner in private firm Chitale Associates, till March 19.
The CBI sought custody of all the accused, saying they have to be confronted with one another regarding the documents which were seized during investigation. Daljeet Singh, an upper division clerk in the department of industrial policy and promotion (DIPP), was arrested from his hideout in Delhi on Monday.
According to the CBI, Daljeet Singh was allegedly providing confidential documents to his counterparts in the finance ministry who in turn were giving them away to the Mumbai-based chartered accountant, and later passed to various corporate houses.
The CBI on March 12 filed a case and raided eight places, including offices of various ministries and private establishments, in Delhi and Mumbai, and arrested the under secretary in the disinvestment and grievances department, Ashok Kumar Singh, along with the section officer of the economic affairs department, Lala Ram Sharma. Gandhi was arrested from Mumbai during the raid conducted by the CBI.
Investigators said Daljeet Singh used to provide documents of the commerce ministry to Ashok Kumar and Lala Ram Sharma who passed them to Gandhi.
The probe agency also revealed the the alleged role of a representative of Price waterhouseCoopers (PwC), a multi-national firm which provides tax and consulting services, and was being probed.