The Delhi High Court has cleared the decks for trial against Reliance Industries relating to seizure of classified documents from its office in 1998 by rejecting its plea that the case was time-barred. The company is facing criminal case under the Official Secrets Act for the alleged recovery of some secret documents during search of the office premise of V Balasubramanian, the then Group President of Reliance Industries, in 1998.
A criminal case was filed but considering the sensitivity of the case, investigation was handed over to the CBI which registered a complaint in 2002.
The company had contended that the CBI failed to register the complaint within the time frame of three years and as such it should not have been proceeded.
