Also that, “by spelling out the details of a top secret project (Vision 2000) and other similar projects, India’s technical capabilities for obtaining information relating to national security have been unduly exposed to unauthorized persons including our enemy countries and adversaries which is bound to seriously effect our national interests. In this way norms of national security have decidedly been compromised.”

The CBI has listed offending paragraphs and sections of the book which mentioned locations of R&AW’s secret installations in India as well as its offices in Bhuj, Patiala, Ladakh, Srinagar, Patparganj (Delhi) and Amritsar. And alleged that, “These are secret locations, the disclosure of which is against the interest of the nation and this violates the provisions of OSA.”

The CBI also charged V K Singh with revealing names of R&AW officials posted abroad, for instance, of Amar Bhushan in Tokyo and N V Menon in Amsterdam and claimed that names of officials “are not divulged in the interest of friendly relations with the foreign countries...book has adversely effected the working of the organization involved in highly sensitive work relating to national security.”

As far as the book’s publisher is concerned, the CBI has stated that he published Singh “knowing full well that certain contents of the book were secret, top secret, classified material.” The complaint was filed in a Delhi court today at a stage when arguments were in progress for holding an in-camera trial in the OSA case.