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| Himachal Pradesh phone tapping row |
| Himachal Pradesh phone tapping row hots up
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| INDIA
, 25-February-2013
6:25:21 AM |
| The political war over phone tapping in Himachal Pradesh is hotting up with both the Congress and the BJP trading allegations at each other over a thousand phones that were tapped between 2009 and 2012.
Within hours of his assuming the office of Chief Minister Himachal Pradesh in December last Vir Bhadra Singh ordered Special Investigation Team (SIT) to look into phone tapping during BJP government's tenure. A committee had found over 1,000 telephones of politicians, bureaucrats and journalists were tapped during previous Prem Kumar Dhumal-led BJP government in Himachal Pradesh.
Hours after the receiving the probe report last week, Director General of Police I.D. Bhandari who headed the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) during the earlier regime was transferred.
The chief minister alleged that the tapping could not have taken place without the knowledge of the then chief minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, who was also the Home minister.
"The BJP felt so insecure that they resorted to tapping of phones at a large scale. We had sent the tapes to the Forensic Labs we have received report with regard to the state government's CID where 760 phones were being tapped, as against this the permission to tap just 35 phones," said chief minister Singh
Mr Bhandari who is now DG Home Guards says that only phone tapping permitted by the Home Secretary was ordered. "As far as I am concerned I haven't done anything wrong... whatever I have done as nodal officer it was all legitimate," he said.
Tapping a phone starts when a request comes to CID or Vigilance department from the investigating officer of a case. Nodal officers from these two departments then send the request to cell phone service providers and also forward the same to the Home Secretary. If the Home Secretary clears the request, the phone can be tapped for maximum of six months and if the request is turned down, phone can't be tapped for more than 7 days.
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