Former reporter held in petroleum ministry case

New Delhi, Feb 20: A former journalist with an energy consultant has been arrested in connection with the petroleum ministry document leakage case, police said Friday, adding that some more people would be arrested soon. Santanu Saikia, who runs a web portal and covered crime stories for several years, was arrested early Friday for his alleged role in providing secret documents of the petroleum ministry to corporate houses. Prayas Jain, a Melbourne-based energy consultant, was also arrested Friday. Delhi Police chief B.S. Bassi said that Saikia and Jain, both ran some sort of an independent website where they uploaded the analysis of the stolen documents. "...And this information was further used by corporate houses. They also shared this information with some individuals in return of money," Bassi told reporters. Bassi, however, refused to reveal the names of the organisations who benefitted from this. He said: "It will not be good to reveal the names of these organisations as the investigation is still on."