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Explained: Law on phone-tapping, and two High Court rulings
July 08, 2025 12:04 pm
Both the Madras and Delhi High Court cases involved “preventing incitement to the commission of an offence”, which is one of the valid grounds in law for authorising phone tapping.
Newsmaker | KCR’s nephew booked in phone tapping case: Who is T Harish Rao?
December 04, 2024 11:19 am
A seven-time MLA from Siddipet, Harish is a veteran of the Telangana statehood movement and a former minister who is accused of illegally using state machinery to tap phones of his rivals.
Ashok Gehlot’s ex-OSD arrested by Delhi Police in 2021 phone tapping case
November 26, 2024 1:36 am
In an FIR lodged in Delhi in March 2021 based on the complaint of Union minister and Rajasthan BJP leader Shekhawat, Sharma and others were accused of criminal conspiracy and “unlawfully intercepting telegraphic signals (telephonic conversation)”.
As Telangana phone tapping case unravels, ex-intel bureau chief is named as prime accused
March 31, 2024 9:11 am
According to investigators, former SIB chief, retired IPS officer T Prabhakar Rao, who has been named as “accused number 1” by the Hyderabad Police, failed to “draw the line” when taking or implementing orders from the party in power.
Phone tapping case: Two additional SPs arrested in Telangana
March 31, 2024 9:11 am
The two police officials had earlier worked as Additional Superintendents of Police in the Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB) and Intelligence Department, respectively.
Phone tapping case: Delhi Police question Rajasthan CM’s OSD for 4 hours, summon him again on Wednesday
October 10, 2023 10:35 pm
Talking to journalists after his questioning Tuesday, Sharma said, “This was my eight notice (to appear before the police)."
Delhi Police serves fresh notice on OSD to Rajasthan CM in phone-tapping case
February 13, 2023 7:15 am
On March 25, 2021, the Delhi Police registered an FIR against the OSD to Rajasthan CM for criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust and unlawfully intercepting telegraphic signals.
Inching towards an Orwellian state: How the new draft telecom bill legally sanctions surveillance without safeguards
September 29, 2022 8:26 am
Even today, large amounts of metadata, including phone numbers and user profiles that include membership of groups and conversations (without their content) are available to law enforcement without any data protection or surveillance reform. Clause 24(2) will lead to greater surveillance by making even personal conversations over OTT communication services available to law enforcement agencies
Rashmi Shukla questioned for second time in 10 days in phone tapping case
March 24, 2022 12:24 am
Shukla, who formerly headed the State Intelligence Department (SID) of the Maharashtra Police, is accused of tapping the phones of Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut and NCP leader Eknath Khadse.
Modi govt tapping phones of opposition, bureaucrats & judges: Congress
May 13, 2016 8:01 pm
Party's senior spokesman Anand Sharma told reporters, "There is a dirty tricks dept in the BJP Government, which is working overtime tapping phone of Opposition, civil servants and judges".
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