New Delhi: Key accused in the Indian Navy war room leak case, Ravi Shankaran was spotted in Sweden claimed CBI on Saturday.
Shankaran, a kin of former navy chief Admiral Arun Prakash is “wanted” by the CBI for obtaining classified data, including the navy's acquisition plans and other sensitive material, from the war room or directorate of naval operations.
The main accused in the war room leak case, Shankaran had slipping out of Britain when an arrest warrant was issued against him by a UK court on the CBI's request.
After trailing him for over four months, the CBI found him in Sweden. This prompted the agency to send an alert to the Swedish wing of Interpol for his immediate detention, official sources said.
Shankaran, who has been chargesheeted by the CBI, has not returned to Britain. He fled after the arrest warrant for him was issued by an additional district judge on April 10.
He has been criss-crossing Europe without a valid passport as the external affairs ministry revoked his travel document last year.
The CBI alerted several countries, including the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Denmark and Norway, to detain 43-year-old Shankaran as he could use these nations as a make-shift base to ward off arrest by law enforcing agencies.
CBI officials said they were confident of getting Shankaran extradited to India and termed his "vanishing act" as a temporary phase till the law caught up with him.
With inputs from PTI
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