Shimla, August 28: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal today denied phone tapping charges levelled against him by Union Minister Virbhadra Singh and urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to order a probe into the allegation.
“I urge the Prime Minister to order an inquiry by CBI or any other high agency into allegation of the union minister that his landline and mobile phones are being tapped by the state government and is haunted by a posse of CID sleuths deployed near his house here,” Dhumal said in the state assembly.
He said, “Singh is probably forgetting that telephone tapping can be done on the order of Telecom ministry which is under the Union Government and not the state”.
Dhumal said he would lodge a complaint with the Home Minister regarding the issue.
–PTI