Days after the CBI arrested defence journalist Vivek Raghuvanshi for alleged espionage, journalists and experts who knew him have expressed shock. They described him as a simple man who was a familiar face at press conferences and the South Block, which houses the defence ministry.
Raghuvanshi, a freelance journalist writing on defence for more than three decades, was also working as a consultant to private defence manufacturers in India and used to prepare “assessments” based on open source information. One of his acquaintances told Newslaundry that he was under “a lot of stress” of late and had “health issues”.
