PTI

New Delhi, Jul 4: Ravi Shankaran, a kin of Navy Chief Admiral Arun Prakash, and four former senior defence officials were on Monday chargesheeted by the CBI in the Naval war room leak case.

The CBI filed the chargesheet against the five persons in the court of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Kanwaljeet Arora who posted the matter to July 10 for further hearing in the case.

Besides Shankaran, against whom an Interpol Red Corner look-out notice has been issued and who has been declared a proclaimed offender, others chargesheeted by the CBI were former naval Commander Kulbushan Parashar, sacked Naval Commanders Vijender Rana and V K Jha and ex-IAF Wing Commander S L Surve.

The chargesheet says Shankaran, whom the court had asked to appear before CBI on or before July 31, 2006, he was hiding in a European country.

Parashar, Shankaran, Surve and Rana were chargesheeted under 120-B (Criminal Conspiracy) of IPC to commit offence under Officials Secret Act for allegedly entering into a conspiracy and "compromised" about 7000 pages of defence information of sensitive nature from the Naval war room and air defence headquarters, which have a direct bearing on national security.