Govt tells Supreme Court: Rafale files stolen from MoD
The government told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that documents related to the Rafale deal had been stolen from the ministry of defence and told that The Hindu newspaper with action under the Official Secrets Act for publishing articles based on them. The newspaper reacted saying that documents related to the Rafale deal were published in the public interest and nobody would get any information from The Hindu on the confidential sources who had provided them.
Those who put documents on the Rafale deal in the public domain are guilty under the Official Secrets Act and had committed contempt of court, attorney-general K.K. Venugopal said before a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi. An investigation into the theft is on, the attorney-general said on a day the newspape...