The allegation, if not admission, by the Centre that confidential Rafale documents were “stolen” raises several tricky questions.
Is South Block — the colonial-era building that houses the Prime Minister’s Office besides the foreign and defence ministries — leaking like a sieve or is one of the most protected edifices in the country the easiest government address to break into?
Around the same time the Centre was complaining to the Supreme Court that the Rafale reports were based on “stolen” documents, some TV channels were reporting that they had accessed a secret air force report that provided proof of the damage of the air strikes in Pakistan. Will the government treat as “stolen” property the purported satellite images shown by the TV channels?
