Surve attends office despite orders not to do so

NEW DELHI: The sacked Wing Commander Sambhajee L Surve, an accused in the naval war room leak case, went to his office despite the orders of an IAF Court of Inquiry asking him not to attend office, the CBI has said.

The Court of Inquriy comrpising Air Commodore A R Nigam, Wing Commander M S Malik and Squardon Leader Prince Devraj held an enquiry on May 24, 2005 and directed Surve not to attend the office.

"He (Surve) still went to his office chamber in Room Number 566, Air Headquarters (Vayu Bhavan) on the very same day and destroyed large number of documents available therein including ones, the copies of which were earlier taken by the (IAF) authorities," the chargesheet filed by CBI in the leak case, said.

Kulbushan Parashar, one of the main accused in the naval war room leak case, had introduced Surve to Rajrani Jaiswal, who was cited as an accused in the FIR, with whom he later developed an extra-marital affair.

The sacked Wing Commander had also been gifted with a Nokia phone after he had lost his mobile phone by Parashar besides financing an air ticket for his visit to Pune.

"Thus Kulbushan Parashar developed friendship with Surve and in liew of gifts and favours given to him by the former, Surve provided him the classified information having a bearing on the sovergnity of the nation," the CBI chargesheet, filed in the court, claimed.