After a lot of dilly dallying, finally the government of Telangana said to have admitted its role in phone tapping. In one of its two petitions filed in the High Court, the TRS government made it clear that the phones have been tapped. However, it defended its act stating that phones have been tapped for “public order”.
The TRS government sought the High Court to quash the order of the Vijayawada metropolitan court which had directed four telecom service providers to give call data details of certain telephones to the Andhra Pradesh CID and SIT. “The lawful interception was done to maintain public order and Vijayawada metropolitan court has no jurisdiction over Telangana,” it said in petition.
“Disclosure of lawful interception correspondence on the filmsiest pretext of illegal phone-tapping would only boost anti-state and anti-national activists besides endangering the lives of those involved in curbing such illegal activities,” it added in the petition.
It may be noted that Vijayawada court directed BSNL, Airtel, Idea and Reliance to provide call data details of the phones to AP CID, the telecom companies moved the Supreme Court which directed them to provide the call data details to Vijayawada court in a ‘sealed’ cover and asked the latter to keep it sealed for one month. The Apex Court further ruled that the concerned parties in meantime could seek redressal from the High Court.
Days after the Telangana ACB registered cash-for-vote case, the AP CID registered the phone-tapping case based on complaints that the phones of Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu, ministers were tapped by Telangana intelligence officials.
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