An application had already been filed on August 5 on Gupta's behalf seeking certain documents, including emails she had allegedly exchanged with her Pakistani handlers.
A Delhi court today allowed a contention of diplomat Madhuri Gupta, accused of spying for Pakistan, that the arguments could not be advanced on her bail plea as the police had failed to provide her all documents relating to the espionage case.
Chief metropolitan magistrate Kaveri Baweja adjourned the matter to August 18 after Joginder Dahiya, counsel for Gupta, submitted that he has not yet been supplied with all necessary documents being relied on by the police in levelling the charges against her of passing secret information to Pakistan intelligence agents.
The court was hearing the bail application of Gupta filed for the third time since her arrest on April 22.
An application had already been filed on August 5 on Gupta's behalf seeking certain documents, including emails she had allegedly exchanged with her Pakistani handlers.
She had also sought a copy of emails allegedly shared with co-accused, and other purported communication between her and ministry of external affairs (MEA) officials.
In the third application seeking bail, Gupta, 53, contended that keeping her inside jail would amount to punishment before trial.
She also submitted that the police had already completed their investigation and filed the chargesheet in the case.
There was no chance of her absconding from the process of law as she is a permanent resident of Delhi, she claimed.
In the plea, she had claimed all witnesses in the case are her superior officers posted outside the country and so there was no chance for her influencing them as well.
Her plea had earlier been dismissed by CMM and a sessions court.
The Delhi police had filed the chargesheet against the IFS officer on July 20 seeking her prosecution under Official Secrets Act and Indian Penal Code.
The probe agency had cited Gupta's purported e-mails to claim that she used to pass on information to Pakistan intelligence agencies through her handler Jamshed, whom she reportedly planned to marry, and Mubashar Raza Rana.
Gupta, posted as second secretary, press and information, at the Indian high commission in Islamabad, was arrested on April 22 by the Delhi police's special cell on the charge of revealing classified information to Pakistani officials.
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