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Bail for another accused in NSCS leak case

New Delhi: Shib Shankar Paul, the then Senior Systems Analyst at the secretariat of the National Security Adviser who has been accused of passing sensitive information to an American diplomat posted at the US Embassy, has got bail from a court here.

Paul is the second accused to get bail in the sensational National Security Council Secretariat leak case of 2006 after Commodore (Retd) Mukesh, thus showing cracks in the Delhi Police Special Cell theory accusing him of passing sensitive information to American diplomat Rosana Minchew. Sessions Judge Inder Jeet Singh, while granting the bail, found loopholes in the arguments put forth by the Delhi Police Special Cell and granted bail to Paul on a surety of Rs.50,000 nearly four years after he was arrested.

“The police had claimed that Paul had spoken to his wife on the phone of his friend... accepting passing of information to Minchew, an American diplomat posted here. “But there was no record of any such call in the call details provided by the service provider which has been mentioned in the bail order,” said advocate Ram Singh Soni, appointed by Court as amicus curiae. - PTI

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