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Court turns down Reliance plea in OSA case
March 24, 2003 19:44 IST
A Delhi court on Monday rejected the plea of Reliance Industries and three of its top executives for directing the Central Bureau of Investigation to supply certain "secret" documents to them in an Official Secrets Act case.
Special Judge P K Bhasin rejected the application of the accused on the ground that the probe agency had already been ordered to supply the documents, CBI sources said.
According to the sources, the court said that no further directions were required to be given to CBI for supply of any other documents to the accused before proceeding further.
CBI had filed a criminal complaint against Reliance Industries Ltd and its three top executives V Balasubramaniam, Shanker Adawal and A N Sethuraman on March 19 last year before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate in connection with the recovery of some "secret" papers from their office in 1998, CBI sources said.
On April 5 last year, while condoning the delay, the CMM took cognizance of the complaint and summoned the accused.
Thereafter the trial court directed CBI to supply all the documents to the accused. However, despite the CMM's order the agency withheld four documents forcing the accused to move revision applications before the Special Court, they said.
They also moved another application seeking reversal of CMM's order on condonation of delay on the ground that the order was passed without hearing them in the matter. The court on October 19 last had accepted the petitioners' plea to be heard on the point, they said.
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