02-16-2006, 03:31 AM
Guys. This is preposterous. This anti-national, mafia led foreign government trying to destroy India, Indian army has to be brought down.
They are doing everything to destroy the fabric of our democracy.
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UPA Govt firefights tapping flare-up
Pioneer News Service/ New Delhi
...but explanation leaves many questions unanswered ---- A day after a Zee News exposé <b>claimed that the mobile phone of Supreme Court judge SN Variava, now retired, was tapped, </b>the UPA Government on Wednesday conceded that the revelation of Call Data Records (CDR) of his cellphone (number 9868219600) was a serious matter. But, it claimed, that no Government agency was involved in this phone-tapping episode.
Snooping On Fodder Case Judge
The Government's glib explanation failed to douse the political fire lit by the Zee News revelation on Tuesday. The main Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party demanded an independent inquiry and "an authentic statement" from the UPA Government on the latest phone-tapping allegation.
"It has never happened in any democratic country - that phone calls of an apex court judge are tapped," BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley said, adding that the nation had "the right to know whether anything like privacy exists in the country or not".
The revelation has also reinforced the BJP's suspicions about the alleged tapping being linked with the fodder scam case in which Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav is the principal accused.
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Justice Variava, who retired in October 2005, was on the Supreme Court benches hearing cases involving Mr Yadav and his wife Rabri Devi, then Chief Minister of Bihar, and other high-profile cases, including the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and the JMM bribery caseinvolving late Prime Minister PV Narsimha Rao</b>.
The BJP spokesperson recalled a news report last year about an alleged telephone call to Justice Variava from BJP leader Sushil Modi, who is also a petitioner in the fodder scam case. Mr Variava and Mr Modi had denied the telephonic conversation.
"That news report was based on Mr Variava's cellphone records, showing he had received a call from Mr Modi's landline. But, in fact it was a mischief in which somebody first made a blank call from Mr Modi's landline to Mr Variava's mobile phone and then obtained the judge's call records to try to establish a link," he said.
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Anticipating trouble from the Opposition during the Budget Session, the Home Ministry summoned Delhi Police Commissioner and Secretary (Telecom) to find out how the CDR of the cellphone allotted to a Supreme Court judge reached "unauthorised hands".
Apart from a bland denial that neither the Delhi Police nor the MHA had ordered the tapping of Justice Variava's cellphone, the Government also asked Union Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry to keep a watch over stories being telecast on TV news channels, sources told The Pioneer.
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The I&B Ministry and the Ministry of Telecommunic-ations have also been asked to frame guidelines to ensure such things are not repeated in the future. The sources claimed that the proprietors of Zee could be asked to substantiate its claims.
Dismissing these exercises as "an attempt at whitewash", the BJP said, "An authentic explanation was required immediately to stem speculation over the story in the bud."
"Is this surveillance on Justice Variava's phone part of the same gameplan? Attempts have been made in the past to derail the fodder scam case hearing by Variava's bench. And now the question arises whether the Government was in anyway involved in the surveillance of the judge's MTNL phone," he said.
Mr Jaitley also referred to Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh's phone-tapping, saying such instances raise concerns over privacy rights.
They are doing everything to destroy the fabric of our democracy.
http://www.dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?m...t&counter_img=1
UPA Govt firefights tapping flare-up
Pioneer News Service/ New Delhi
...but explanation leaves many questions unanswered ---- A day after a Zee News exposé <b>claimed that the mobile phone of Supreme Court judge SN Variava, now retired, was tapped, </b>the UPA Government on Wednesday conceded that the revelation of Call Data Records (CDR) of his cellphone (number 9868219600) was a serious matter. But, it claimed, that no Government agency was involved in this phone-tapping episode.
Snooping On Fodder Case Judge
The Government's glib explanation failed to douse the political fire lit by the Zee News revelation on Tuesday. The main Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party demanded an independent inquiry and "an authentic statement" from the UPA Government on the latest phone-tapping allegation.
"It has never happened in any democratic country - that phone calls of an apex court judge are tapped," BJP general secretary Arun Jaitley said, adding that the nation had "the right to know whether anything like privacy exists in the country or not".
The revelation has also reinforced the BJP's suspicions about the alleged tapping being linked with the fodder scam case in which Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav is the principal accused.
<b>
Justice Variava, who retired in October 2005, was on the Supreme Court benches hearing cases involving Mr Yadav and his wife Rabri Devi, then Chief Minister of Bihar, and other high-profile cases, including the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and the JMM bribery caseinvolving late Prime Minister PV Narsimha Rao</b>.
The BJP spokesperson recalled a news report last year about an alleged telephone call to Justice Variava from BJP leader Sushil Modi, who is also a petitioner in the fodder scam case. Mr Variava and Mr Modi had denied the telephonic conversation.
"That news report was based on Mr Variava's cellphone records, showing he had received a call from Mr Modi's landline. But, in fact it was a mischief in which somebody first made a blank call from Mr Modi's landline to Mr Variava's mobile phone and then obtained the judge's call records to try to establish a link," he said.
<b>
Anticipating trouble from the Opposition during the Budget Session, the Home Ministry summoned Delhi Police Commissioner and Secretary (Telecom) to find out how the CDR of the cellphone allotted to a Supreme Court judge reached "unauthorised hands".
Apart from a bland denial that neither the Delhi Police nor the MHA had ordered the tapping of Justice Variava's cellphone, the Government also asked Union Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry to keep a watch over stories being telecast on TV news channels, sources told The Pioneer.
</b>
The I&B Ministry and the Ministry of Telecommunic-ations have also been asked to frame guidelines to ensure such things are not repeated in the future. The sources claimed that the proprietors of Zee could be asked to substantiate its claims.
Dismissing these exercises as "an attempt at whitewash", the BJP said, "An authentic explanation was required immediately to stem speculation over the story in the bud."
"Is this surveillance on Justice Variava's phone part of the same gameplan? Attempts have been made in the past to derail the fodder scam case hearing by Variava's bench. And now the question arises whether the Government was in anyway involved in the surveillance of the judge's MTNL phone," he said.
Mr Jaitley also referred to Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh's phone-tapping, saying such instances raise concerns over privacy rights.