A day after being granted permission to take all five accused of the DRDO, Chandipur espionage racket on remand, a special team of the Crime Branch (CB) started their interrogation here on Sunday.
In the first phase, a five-member team is quizzing the accused under the supervision of Crime Branch ADG Sanjeeb Panda.While the involvement of two more people are being suspected in the case the CB team would ascertain it during the grilling. The team would also try to elicit information on the financial transactions involved.
A Cyber police station Inspector and Sub-Inspector are helping team in investigation. The five col employees of DRDO, arrested on charges of leaking sensitive information to foreign agents, were remanded to Crime Branch custody for seven days by a court on Saturday. The Baleswar SDJM Court allowed the CB to take the five persons, identified as Basanta Behera (52), Hemant Kumar Mistri (52), Tapas Ranjan Nayak (41), Sk Musafir (32) and Sachin Kumar Chatta on a week’s remand.