New Delhi, May 1 (IANS): A court here on Friday slated for May 7 the hearing on the charge sheet filed in connection with the second FIR filed in the ministries' documents leak case.

Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Satish Kumar Arora, who was scheduled to consider the charge sheet on May 1, has now postponed the hearing to May 7.

Delhi Police on April 23 formally charged three accused in connection with the second FIR filed in the ministries' documents leak case.

Lokesh Sharma, an employee of the Noida-based energy consultancy Infraline Energy; Jitender Nagpal, personal assistant to a joint secretary in the environment ministry; and Vipan Kumar, personal assistant to a member of the Union Public Service Commission, were formally charged under various sections dealing with theft, tresspass and criminal conspiracy.

Sharma, who was arrested on February 23, used to provide stolen documents of the coal and petroleum ministries to some corporate houses, police said. Nagpal and Kumar were arrested on February 25.

Delhi Police have registered two first information reports (FIRs) in connection with the leak of classified documents related to various ministries, including coal, petroleum and natural gas and power.

All three were booked following the second FIR registered on February 20.

The first FIR was filed on February 17 in connection with the case relating to the leak of documents from the petroleum and other ministries, which was unearthed with the arrest of two former employees of Shastri Bhavan.

Police have filed a charge sheet against 13 accused in the first case.