FIR says budget document among leaked papers

New Delhi, Feb 20: The sensational petroleum ministry document leakage case assumed wider dimensions Friday with the arrest of a former journalist and an energy consultant and revelations in the police complaint that the papers stolen included inputs for the forthcoming union budget and a letter relating to the PMO. The stolen documents were also related to the power and coal ministries, police said. Delhi Police earlier Friday arrested Santanu Saikia, who runs a web portal for his alleged role in providing secret documents of the petroleum ministry to corporate houses. The most high profile person among the seven people held in the leak case, Saikia is a former journalist who covered, among other areas, crime and petroleum ministry. Later, he came an energy consultant. In a post on his facebook page, Saikia had brought to the attention of his friends and visitors about how the Official Secrets Act was being "misused" by the government. He also quotes The Week's story on CBI in December 2010, which mentioned "my 10-year court battle to escape prosecution from the CBI". Prayas Jain, a Melbourne-based energy consultant, was also arrested. Delhi Police chief B.S. Bassi said Saikia and Jain ran an independent website where they uploaded the analysis of the documents which were photocopies of the originals.