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Amar Singh moves Supreme Court

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Honest probe possible only in judicial inquiry into phone tapping

New Delhi : Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on Monday moved the Supreme Court seeking a judicial inquiry into the alleged tapping of his telephone by the Delhi police.

Eight respondents

Mr. Singh, in an application filed on a PUCL petition disposed of by the court in 1996, sought a direction to the Central and State governments to strictly enforce its guidelines as well as Rule 419 A of the Indian Telegraph Rules.

Mr. Singh cited eight respondents — the Union Telecommunications and Home Ministries, the Chief Secretary and the Home Secretary of Delhi, the Delhi Police Commissioner, the Additional Commissioner (crime), the Congress through its president and Reliance Infocomm.

Mr. Singh alleged that the personal telephones of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Akhilesh Yadav, a member of Parliament, were also being tapped.

He referred to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's statement seeking a full fledged and honest investigation, which could be done only in an impartial judicial inquiry and not by agencies such as the Central Bureau of Investigation, which was under the control of the party in power at the Centre.

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