DRDO official files complaint
A senior scientist working with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has written to the Delhi police’s crime branch that a Dehradun-based former employee, who was dismissed on charges of misconduct, has been publishing classified information related to the
organisation on his website, which can “seriously affect and compromise the research” being conducted at DRDO.
Crime branch sources said the complainant, Arun Kumar, who is working as director of personnel, told the investigators on Monday that a former employee of DRDO, Prabhu Dayal Dandriyal has been running a website (www.corruptionindrdo.com) for the last 18 months on which he has been uploading information which can “compromise the national security and is highly prejudicial for the interest of the country”.
The accused has also uploaded “malicious and manipulated information” against some top functionaries of the ministry of defence and DRDO. “Such activities will ultimately result in slowing down of research and development activity, having grave consequences for the defence forces,” Mr Kumar told the police on Monday.
Sources disclosed that Mr Kumar also alleged that there is a criminal conspiracy by the accused in “exposing the highly sensitive and classified secret and top secret information about defence strategic deployment and other information” through his website under the guise of trying to expose corruption in DRDO.
The accused has also reportedly written to the defence minister, defence secretary, CVC, and other top government officials and organisations against the complainant saying that he has been indulging in corrupt practises at DRDO.
“This sort of misinformation and concocted, manipulated information can cause serious loss of confidence of more than 28,000 scientists, technical officers and staff of DRDO. This is an attempt not only to malign me but the entire DRDO which is entrusted with the task of developing systems and equipment for national security,” he states in his complaint.
The crime branch has registered a case under Information Technology Act at its economic offences wing and a team has been sent to Dehradun to nab the accused.
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