Nearly two-and-a-half years after R&AW Joint Secretary Rabinder Singh, in-charge of South East Asia, fled to the US, the external intelligence agency formally lodged a criminal complaint in a Delhi court, accusing him of compromising national security by spying for a Western intelligence agency. Singh’s case was first reported by The Indian Express.

In its complaint, running into some 30 pages and filed by R&AW Additional Commissioner A K Sinha in the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Seema Maini yesterday, the agency said that they had located Singh in New Jersey and the process should start to seek his extradition.

“Now, we will be moving to extradite Singh from the US,” stated the complaint. The Home Ministry had earlier invoked the National Security Act (NSA) and issued orders to attach Singh’s property.

Special sanction was given by the Cabinet Secretariat to R&AW to move against Singh as the agency does not have any prosecution powers.This move, it’s learnt, has been taken in view of the breach of national security.