Thursday, September 29 2005 18:50 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: Key officials posted at the Naval Operations Directorate here have been found 'culpable' of leaking out classified information to commercial interests and a go ahead has been given for 'disciplinary action' against them.

"A Board of Inquiry headed by Rear Admiral Ganesh Mahadevan has clearly established that there has been leakage of information of commercial value to unauthorized persons", an official statement said today (Sept 29, 2005) on the case in which some computer disks containing classified information about Naval acquisitions have been leaked out to commercial parties.

Though it did not give any names of officers against whom disciplinary action had been recommended, three top officials manning the Directorate, Capt Kashyap Kumar and Commanders V Rana and V K Jha, are understood to have figured in it and they had been asked to depose before the Board of Inquiry.