New Delhi, May 11: Expelled Samajwadi party general-secretary Amar Singh has suffered a major setback when the Supreme Court today cleared the decks for making his conversations public.
A bench, comprising Justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly, dismissed the petition filed by Amar Singh challenging the taping of his phone conversation by the Delhi police on the grounds that it has violated the privacy of an individual citizen of the country.
The tapes contained conversations allegedly exposing the wheeling and dealing by Amar Singh.
A bench headed by the then Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal had restrained the authorities from making the tapes public.
With today’s order the interim stay also stands vacated.
Mr Singh had earlier blamed the Congress for harassing and targetting him but during the final hearing the petitioners did a volte-face and gave clean chit to the party and its president Sonia Gandhi.
–UNI