Vajpayee also denied that there was any pressure from the Government on the CBI in this case. ``We have not gone soft,'' he said. ``The CBI is doing its job. Moreover, the agency is not under the direct control of the PMO.''Reliance official V Balasubramaniam has been booked under the Official Secrets Act after certain documents were seized from him in connection with the Romesh Sharma case. The CBI had also raided Reliance offices in Mumbai and New Delhi last week.

Yesterday, Advani had said, in the capital, that documents seized from the Reliance executive were not as significant as the probe into Sharma's activities as an alleged Dawood frontman. He, too, had suggested doing awaywith the Official Secrets Act.

The documents recovered from the Reliance executive did not pertain to the next budget and would have anyway become outdated, he said.

Nevertheless, he said, investigations in this regard would go on separately.