Delhi High Court’s No To SIT Probe On Illegal Phone Tapping

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a plea seeking a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate some public officials who illegally tapped phone calls. A Division Bench presided by Chief Justice D.N. Patel and Justice C. Harishankar turned down the petition filed by Sarthak Chaturvedi. The bench said: “We see no reason to formulate further guidelines in this regard as ample amount of rules and regulations exist in the Telegraph Rules. Moreover, we see no reason to constitute an SIT to probe the officials.” The plea sought direction to constitute a SIT or direct the Centre to investigate the abuse of powers by “some public servants of CBI for having committed an offence of illegally intercepting phone calls of individuals without following due process of law’’. (IANS)

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