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MHA official held for leaking information
New Delhi, November 22 Ravi Inder Singh, a 1994 batch IAS officer of West Bengal cadre, who was working as Director in the sensitive Internal Security division, was under surveillance of the Special Cell
of Delhi Police and was arrested this evening following which the Special Cell of the Delhi Police raided his office and residence, sources said. Police officials seized documents and records saved in his computers for their probe. Home Secretary GK Pillai confirmed the detention of Ravi Inder Singh and said there were allegations that he was leaking “sensitive information” out of the MHA. A ministry source said Singh was passing sensitive information to commercial firms in connection with security clearance. He has been under surveillance for about a month. He was handling the Blackberry controversy recently in which the government had asked the Canada-based firm to share its encoded messages with official agencies. — TNS/PTI
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