01-06-2006, 11:12 PM
http://ia.rediff.com/news/2006/jan/06fli...&file=.htm
Who tapped Amar Singh's phone?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->This raises another troubling question. It is not probable that Amar Singh was the only politician whose communication were being monitored. I understand that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa too now claims that her phones were also being tapped. Who else is being tapped?
<b>The Delhi police got it right in claiming that there is some 'very influential' person behind it all. Just look at the sums of money that are involved. Bhupendra Kumar, the private detective, who carried out the actual nuts and bolts operation on Amar Singh's phones, was being paid Rs 5 lakh (Rs 500,000) every week for the job.
He had received at least half a crore (Rs 5 million) on the job before the scandal resulted in his arrest. How many people are there who can put out that kind of money? Or many times more if I am correct in assuming that Amar Singh was not the only man being tapped.</b>
<b>It all reminds of the sickness that infected India thirty years ago, during the Emergency. Most Opposition leaders had, of course, been thrust behind bars. </b>That did not, however, prevent a paranoid government from keeping an ear on every other group that seemed to be against it -- judges, lawyers, journalists, and so on.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->First, Amar Singh's phone was being tapped.
Second, the tap was illegal.
Third, some private detective was being paid a crazy amount of money to do the job.
Fourth, the Delhi police admit that they have a fair idea about the identity of the 'influential' person behind it all.
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Who tapped Amar Singh's phone?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->This raises another troubling question. It is not probable that Amar Singh was the only politician whose communication were being monitored. I understand that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa too now claims that her phones were also being tapped. Who else is being tapped?
<b>The Delhi police got it right in claiming that there is some 'very influential' person behind it all. Just look at the sums of money that are involved. Bhupendra Kumar, the private detective, who carried out the actual nuts and bolts operation on Amar Singh's phones, was being paid Rs 5 lakh (Rs 500,000) every week for the job.
He had received at least half a crore (Rs 5 million) on the job before the scandal resulted in his arrest. How many people are there who can put out that kind of money? Or many times more if I am correct in assuming that Amar Singh was not the only man being tapped.</b>
<b>It all reminds of the sickness that infected India thirty years ago, during the Emergency. Most Opposition leaders had, of course, been thrust behind bars. </b>That did not, however, prevent a paranoid government from keeping an ear on every other group that seemed to be against it -- judges, lawyers, journalists, and so on.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->First, Amar Singh's phone was being tapped.
Second, the tap was illegal.
Third, some private detective was being paid a crazy amount of money to do the job.
Fourth, the Delhi police admit that they have a fair idea about the identity of the 'influential' person behind it all.
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