Delhi Police constable Arvind Dabas, arrested on charge of attempting to get call details of BJP leader Arun Jaitley, has sought bail from a Delhi court claiming he was falsely implicated in the case due to "personal animosities" in the department. The bail plea was moved before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Vidya Prakash who issued notice to the Delhi Police seeking its reply on March 2. ...
05:06 PM, Feb 28, 2013
The three detectives, who were arrested in the Arun Jaitley phone tapping case, will be produced in a Delhi court later on Monday. The custody of the three - Anurag Singh, Neeraj Nayyar and Nitish Kumar ends today. ...
10:12 AM, Feb 25, 2013
One of the key accused arrested by Delhi Police arrest for trying to access Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Arun Jaitley's phone records was earlier arrested in the Amar Singh phone tapping case. The accused Anurag Singh was arrested along with Nitish by the police which takes the total number of people arrested to four. ...
03:09 PM, Feb 19, 2013
Two more people have been arrested in connection with Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley's call records case. The two arrested, Nitish and Anurag, both are private detectives according to sources. Four arrests have been made in the case. ...
11:04 AM, Feb 19, 2013
Condemning the "unauthorised surveillance" on its leader Arun Jaitley, BJP on Saturday said it will not take things "lying down" and asked Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to clarify on who ordered the collection of his call details. ...
03:59 AM, Feb 17, 2013
New Delhi: Nearly 10,000 phones are being lawfully tapped in various states, according to official data available on Friday. Over 4,500 phones were intercepted during the month of August in addition to more than 5,000 phones which were already being tapped. The interception is ordered by various intelligence agencies, police forces and Army. Besides phones, nearly 1,200 email addresses were also being intercepted under the Indian Telegraph Act, according to...
07:20 PM, Oct 12, 2012
New Delhi: BJP leader Jaswant Singh on Wednesday took a dig at the government over alleged tapping of phones of political leaders, including Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, saying those following his calls will 'enjoy' the conversation. "If my phone is being tapped... I hope those who are tapping my telephone, they enjoy the conversation that we have," he said here. He was reacting to questions from reporters after the...
11:38 AM, Sep 27, 2012
New Delhi: Almost an hour after Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee accused the UPA government of tapping her phone, Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde denied all allegations. The Home Minister said that no phone tapping was done by the government. This came after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addressed a press conference where she alleged that the Union government was getting her phone tapped. ...
05:31 PM, Sep 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Government on Saturday dismissed the allegations of Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yashwant Sinha that his telephones and those of his family were tapped, saying it was "totally incorrect". "We have never tapped telephones of Sinha or his family members. This is absolutely wrong and totally incorrect," Union Home Secretary RK Singh said in New Delhi. "There is no question of telephones of Sinha or his family members...
05:26 PM, Sep 01, 2012
Ranchi: Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha on Friday alleged that his telephones and those of his family were tapped after he raised the Aircel-Maxis issue against Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram. "When I raised the Aircel-Maxis issue against P Chidambaram, orders were given to tap my telephones and those of my family members, but we are not afraid," Sinha told a press conference in Ranchi. Dubbing it as a pressure...
10:16 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Kochi: CPM Kannur district secretary P Jayarajan, an accused in the Shukkoor murder case, on Wednesday approached the Kerala High Court seeking a directive to the state to conduct a proper inquiry into the illegal hacking of his personal and official phones. Jayarajan submitted that he was questioned by the SIT in the Shukkoor murder case. However, the SIT tapped his personal and office telephones without any authorisation. Telephone tapping...
12:58 PM, Aug 02, 2012
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Congress on Friday charged the state BJP government with tapping telephones of its party leaders. A complaint regarding phones being tapped would be filed with Union Home Minister P Chidambaram and state Governor Ram Naresh Yadav, Congress state unit media department chairman Manak Agrawal said in a statement in Bhopal. The phone calls of Congress leaders were being tapped secretly in Bhopal, Indore, Khargone, Jhabua, Dhar and...
02:58 PM, Jun 08, 2012
London: Rupert Murdoch batted away accusations on Wednesday that he used his vast media empire to play puppet master to a succession of British leaders, electrifying a media inquiry that has shaken faith in Prime Minister David Cameron's government. The 81-year-old media mogul's appearance is the high point in an inquiry which has laid bare collusion between ministers and News Corp, reawakening decades of concern over the cozy ties between...
05:03 PM, Apr 25, 2012
Hyderabad: Army chief General VK Singh on Monday denied reports of him tracking phone conversations of ministers. He also stuck to his stand that ammunition in the Army was seeing an alarming shortage. He termed as 'fiction' media reports of a complaint about telephone tapping to hear conversation in connection with his age row. "Fiction does not require any reaction. If people concoct stories and some of the irresponsible editors...
02:39 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Centre to place before it the report of the probe ordered into the leakage of "classified documents/telephonic intercepts" of corporate lobbyist Nira Radia's conversations with politicians, businessmen and journalists. A bench of justices GS Singhvi and SJ Mukhopadhyay asked Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising to place the report before it by January 31, 2012, when it would take up for final...
08:08 PM, Nov 23, 2011
Arvind Kejriwal had claimed that phones of the Team Anna members were being tapped. ...
06:36 PM, Nov 06, 2011
New Delhi: Congress on Sunday trashed Team Anna's allegations that their phones were being tapped and advised the activists to lodge a complaint with the police if they have any doubts. "It is not necessary to answer allegations which are the product of a fertile imagination and involve only tilting at windmills without any factual basis," Congress spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said in New Delhi. Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal had...
05:43 PM, Nov 06, 2011
Grilled by the British Parliament, the world's most powerful Media mugol Rupert Murdoch apologised for phone hacking by his journalists, but refuses to take overall responsibility for the fiasco. ...
09:10 PM, Jul 19, 2011
New Delhi: In the clash of the titans at North Block, Pranab Mukherjee has finally had his way - phone tapping for unearthing tax evaders - this despite objections from the Home Ministry and the Cabinet Secretariat. Post the Nira Radia phone taps by the income tax department, the Cabinet Secretariat had suggested the department be removed from the list of agencies that can tap phones. The reasoning being tax...
08:33 AM, Jun 01, 2011
New Delhi: The smokescreen around the secret world of phone taps legal and illegal is all set to clear up. In an unprecedented move, the Union Home Ministry has called police chiefs from across the country on Tuesday on phone tapping. Perhaps keeping in mind the corporate lobbyist Nira Radia and former BSP leader Amar Singh phone tap scandals, the Home ministry has prepared fresh standard operating procedures. The Central...
07:01 AM, May 31, 2011
