New Delhi, June 14: Do you know that somebody is tapping your phone? There are thousand of people in the country who are not aware of the fact that their phones are tapped. There are agencies which are illegally importing phone-tapping gadgets from Singapore and Hong Kong.
Sources say that the government is suspecting rampant abuse of this technology, which only nine government departments and state intelligence agencies are allowed to use under section 5 of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 and, that too, very selectively.
According to HT, the home ministry has drawn up a list of people and companies, which imported the gadgets till December 2010, and sent it to the department of telecommunications for seizing the equipment as soon as possible.
The issue came to light last November, when Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata moved the Supreme Court against the publication of the transcripts of his conversations with lobbyist Niira Radia. The transcripts are now part of the evidence in the 2G scam case.
—Agencies