New Delhi, February 02: The Supreme Court today sought a response from the Attorney General on a petition seeking complete disclosure of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia’s telephonic conversations with various public figures.
A bench comprising justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly asked the Attorney General G E Vahanvati to file his response within two weeks and posted the matter for hearing on March 8.
The tapes reportedly include her conversations with ministers and corporate czars, which were recorded by the government in 2008-09.
The plea for disclosure of the entire content of Radia tapes was made by an NGO Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), which in its petition named, besides former Telecom Minister A Raja and Tata conglomerate chief Ratan Tata, various politicians, ministers, bureaucrats and journalists as being only a phone call away from her.
–Agencies