SC salvo to CBI on classified files in OSA case
New Delhi, March 4 -- The Supreme Court recently directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to decide within a month whether to provide "sensitive" documents to a retired Army officer facing trial under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) for exposing alleged irregularities within the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) in a book published in 2007.
In a hearing on Friday, the top court said confidentiality cannot be grounds to deny the veteran these documents if they are the basis for prosecuting him under OSA. A bench of justices JK Maheshwari and Atul S Chandurkar said: "If you (CBI) are using the documents against him, you cannot say they are confidential. You find a way out without inviting an order from this court."
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