• Revelation of charter and duties of R&AW from the “classified” report of the Group of Ministers prepared in 2001.

• Revelation of details of R&AW’s “Vision 2000” project to which he was deputed and which were classified as “top secret” since this exposed the technical capabilities of the organization.

• Facts relating to two sub-projects of the R&AW, the VSAT project and the UHF/VHF project.

• Disclosure of locations of R&AW’s secret installations in India as well as names of its undercover agents posted abroad.

The CBI has alleged that Singh has reproduced “almost verbatim” Page 22 of the classified GoM report on internal security. The CBI’s charge: “He has thus exposed the secret organization and made its officers vulnerable by way of providing the information obtained by him, while holding office as Joint Secretary (technical) in R&AW...this can be of benefit to any foreign power interested in it, thereby acting in a manner prejudicial to the safety and interest of the State.”

On the offending contents of the chapters on Vision 2000, the CBI alleges that the “top secret” project covered various sensitive issues like upgradation, modernization and infusion of new technology in R&AW and its own communication network against attack from enemies/adversaries. The complaint lists secret Government orders of 1998-99 via which the project was approved and the file/note sheet numbers of the project with R&AW.

The allegation the retired army officer now faces is, “All these files were classified as “secret” as per the norms of classification of documents as provided in the Department Security Instructions. All these files were dealt with by V K Singh in his official capacity as Joint Secretary and he was not authorized to part with this information to anyone in any manner even after retirement.”

... contd.