Cab Secretary to look into incidents of phone tapping: PM

New Delhi, Dec 14 (PTI) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh Tuesday said he has asked his Cabinet Secretary K M
Chandrasekhar to look into the issue of telephone tapping and
suggest measures to prevent the leakages of recorded
conversations outside the government.
"We must look for solutions to technology to prevent
excess of telephone conversations outside the institutional
framework of government... I am asking Cabinet Secretary to
look into these issues and report back to the cabinet within
the next month," he said while inaugurating the India
Corporate Week 2010 here.
Chandrasekhar has been asked to submit the report in this
regard within a month.
Singh said that he was aware of the "nervousness" in the
corporate sector over the powers to tap telephone for
protecting national security, prevent tax evasion and money
laundering.
"While these powers are needed, they have to be exercised
with utmost care and under very defined rules, procedures and
mechanisms so that they are not misused," he said.
"Legal mechanisms in place should be strengthened for
more effective enforcement," Singh further added.
The Prime Minister's remarks come in the backdrop of Tata
Group Chairman Ratan Tata approaching the Supreme Court of
India against the leakage of tapes involving him and corporate
lobbyist Niira Radia.
HDFC Chairman Deepak Parikh had also commented earlier
this week on telephone tapping and leakage of 'private
conversations'. He said the morale of the industry has been
hurt by such incidents. PTI RMI
SMT


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