Journalist arrested in leaks case

IN Media Watch Briefs | 20/02/2015

The Economic Times reports that the Delhi Police has arrested former journalist Santanu Saikia, who runs the news website Indianpetro.com and businessman Prayas Jain in connection with the probe into the alleged leak of petroleum ministry documents to corporates. It quotes police sources saying the two could have been among the alleged recipients of the stolen documents. The paper says Saikia had earlier worked with a ‘national publication’ and runs the petroleum industry-centric website for several years now. It does not mention that the publication was in fact the Economic Times.

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