The Delhi High Court on Friday sought the CBI’s reply on a journalist’s plea seeking quashing of a trial court order framing charges against him for allegedly hatching a criminal conspiracy with government officials to obtain ‘secret papers’.
Justice Indermeet Kaur issued the notice to CBI and asked them to file a reply by February 2, 2015 on the plea by news portal tehelka. com’s journalist Mathew Samuel. Samuel has sought quashing of a fast track court’s order that framed charges against him and others under the Official Secrets (OS) Act.
The CBI said the petitioner moved the high court seeking quashing of charges framed against him by the trial court in October 2012.
The petition alleged that the trial court has failed to consider the fact that there is no material to frame charges against the petitioner under sections of the OS Act and the IPC for conspiracy.
The CBI has filed a charge sheet against Samuel and the then Tehelka editor (Investigations) Aniruddh Bahal and two of the then home ministry officials Thomas Mathew and Neeraj Kumar, and Buffalo networks, which owned the website, for alleged violation of the OS Act.
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