New Delhi: A case has been registered against arms dealer and consultant Sanjay Bhandari and his associate during an IT raid in April this year as the confidential documents of the Ministry of Defence were recovered from his premises.

Papers of the Defence Ministry, including those related to a much-delayed proposal to buy mid-air refuellers have been found during the search conducted by the Income Tax department.

Recently on the basis of complaint filed by a senior Defence Ministry official, the FIR was registered as the complaint includes that the documents and copies of classified papers recovered during the raid were violative of the Official Secrets Act.