A court in Delhi on Monday extended journalist Rajeev Sharma’s custody by a week, in connection with a case registered against him under the Official Secrets Act, PTI reported. Sharma has been accused of passing on information about the Indian Army’s deployment and the country’s border strategy to Chinese intelligence.
Sharma was arrested by the Delhi police’s Special Cell on September 14 and produced before a local court the next day. The court had sent him to police custody for six days. The police alleged that he was found to be in possession of classified defence-related documents.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pawan Singh Rajawat also extended the custody of Sharma’s alleged associates – a Chinese woman and a Nepalese man – by seven days. The police had alleged that Sharma was being paid huge amounts of money by the two people for the classified…