Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Oct.26: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has detained a serving Navy commander and two retired officers for allegedly leaking classified information about the upgrade of the Navy’s Kilo class submarines.
There are expected to be further arrests in this case, and it is unknown whether foreign intelligence agencies were engaged in the information leak thus far.
A Vice-Admiral and a Rear Admiral are investigating the matter, according to Navy officials.
The serving officer accused of leaking confidential material is a Commander located in Mumbai.
Submarines of the Kilo class, developed and built in the Soviet Union for the Soviet Navy, are among the world’s most numerous conventional submarines and are currently in service with several countries’ navy.
These submarines are classified as Sindhughosh class in India. The government has bought eleven such submarines to date, all of which have undergone substantial modernization, some of which are still classified.
There are 15 conventional submarines and two nuclear submarines in the Navy’s inventory.
