Shipbuilder threatens action to stop reports

“The company is also seeking a court order to force The Australian to hand over the documents and remove them from its website,” it added.

The French shipbuilder said earlier this week that the leak bore the hallmarks of “economic warfare” carried out by frustrated competitors.

The secret data on India’s Scorpene submarines was accessed by an unknown number of people working for a private company in a Southeast Asian country and even placed on an internet server where it was vulnerable to hacking and interception.

The leaked data, which has forced the Indian Navy to assess the vulnerability of Scorpene submarines ordered from DCNS under a $3.5 billion deal, is believed to have been “removed” from the firm in Paris in 2011 by a former French navy officer, according The Australian.

The whistleblower in the leaks plans to surrender the disk containing the documents to the Australian government on Monday and was quoted as saying: “In the wake of the recent future submarine decision (in Australia) this matter went from one of a very serious breach for both France and India to a matter of national security significance to Australia and the US.”

Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s son-in-law Robert Vadra got into a spat with Uttarakhand BJP MLA Ganesh Joshi at the Dehradun airport on Sunday after he refused to accept a bouquet from the lawmaker accused of assaulting police horse Shaktiman in March.

Joshi and BJP workers were at the airport to receive the party’s parliamentarians, including Meenakshi Lekhi. Joshi’s supporters said when the MLA was told about Vadra’s presence in the airport, he reached out to him with a bouquet.

The MLA’S supporters