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- Three e-mails from Commander V. Rana, joint director, naval operations, in the Ocean Management Division, to Shankaran. Of these, the first was a casual courtesy message, the second sought Shankaran's help to prepare qualitative requirements (QRs) for boats that would be purchased by ONGC and the BSF. Shankaran replied, listing nearly 15 companies. Rana wrote back seeking Shankaran's views on the QR draft he had prepared. Shankaran's reply commended the draft. This was deemed to be a security breach and Rana was sacked.
- Official files were recovered from Rana's residence. His contention is that he had taken some work home. The navy had apparently no evidence to indicate that these had been passed on to a third party.
- A pen drive which belonged to Captain Kashyap Kumar, director, naval operations, went missing. Importantly, it did not contain any classified information. Kumar informed his superior Commodore Bimal K.Verma verbally about it and ordered the sailors in the directorate to search for the pen drive. While Kumar was sacked, Verma was only issued a letter of severe displeasure for not taking adequate action.
- Commander V.K. Jha, joint director, naval operations—coordination and systems, allegedly received laptops and other hardware including pen drives as "benefits" from sources the navy failed to name. Since he was also in charge of information security, the BoI concluded that he had failed in his duty and was dismissed.
- All three 'guilty' officers were picked up by naval intelligence on July 18 without a warrant and interrogated and forced to sign statements. They were not issued any receipt for any of the articles that were confiscated from them.
- A pen drive was recovered from Wing Commander S.L. Surve which, the navy says, belonged to K.B. Parashar, director of Expert Systems, a close associate of Shankaran and one of the beneficiaries of the war room leak. The navy claims the pen drive contained information "of a classified nature" from its war room.
- As a subtext Kumar was charged with links with foreign nationals. Apparently a Mauritian lady of Indian origin was in Delhi before her daughter's wedding and had stayed with his parents. This, the BoI stated, was illegal—as was his meeting with a Russian lady. Incidentally, he met this lady in the presence of others in an official delegation led by Lt Gen D. Singh, DG-Infantry, which visited Moscow in May 2005.
- Salacious material (read pornography) was found on the computers of some of the dismissed officers, which was deemed conduct unbecoming of their stature.
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