The Delhi High Court on Monday sought reply from the CBI on the bail application filed by Vinod Kumar Jha, an accused in the Navy War Room Leak case.
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Monday sought reply from the CBI on the bail application filed by Vinod Kumar Jha, an accused in the Navy War Room Leak case, by October 8.
Justice Pradeep Nadrajog issued notice to the probe agency on an application filed by Jha challenging the trial court order on March 20, rejecting his bail plea.
Jha, the sacked Commander of Indian Navy, had sought bail on the ground that he was arrested by the CBI in April last year and the agency had failed to recover any incriminating document from his possession.
Jha, currently lodged in Tihar jail for his alleged involvement in the scam, claimed that he had a glorious career as a result of which he was awarded the Surya Chakra by the President of India and had no criminal back ground.
Charging the Navy of torturing him severely for the alleged offence of adopting careless attitude in taking care of the classified defence documents in the system, he contended that he was wrongly dismissed by the department as he had no intention of committing any offence.
Meanwhile, the bench of Justices R S Sodhi and B N Chaturvedi, which had taken suo motu cognisance of a letter written by Jha, subsequently converted into a writ petition, dismissed his plea for a probe into the alleged ill-treatment and torture meted out to him by the Navy in the case. Jha had written a letter to Justice Sodhi, alleging that he had been physically and mentally tortured by the intelligence wing of his department and sent his medical report along with the letter.
The bench passed the order after Additional Solicitor General P P Malhotra opposed the letter, saying that Jha had already filed a similar petition with all the serious allegations against the Navy before another bench.
In the three page letter written from jail, Jha said "they forced me to confess that I was passing the classified information to one Ravi Shankaran, nephew of former Admiral Arun Prakash.
"Even my savings and monetary benefits have been illegally denied to me so that I can't pursue legal recourse for justice," he wrote in the letter dated August 29.
Jha was dismissed from the Navy in December 2005 on the basis of a report by the Board of Enquiry which charged him with leaking sensitive information. He was arrested on April 6 last year.
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