Another private detective agency owner was arrested on Friday in connection with the phone tapping of Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh.
With the arrest of Anurag, Delhi Police had altogther nabbed three persons in the case, Police Commissioner K K Paul told media persons in New Delhi. Investigators were questioning the accused to ascertain whether somebody had hired them or they were tapping phones on their own.
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Paul asserted that Delhi Police had not conducted any phone tapping as alleged by Singh. He said that some people had used forged letters to carry out the phone tapping.
According to police, Bhupendra, the owner of 'Metro Intelligence' in South Extension, was allegedly tapping Singh's phone on the basis of forged letters in the name of Delhi government's Home Secretary R Narayanswamy and Delhi Police Joint Commissioner (Crime) Ranjit Narayan.
Meanwhile, breaking its silence on the issue, opposition Bharatiya Janata Party said the incident was reminiscent of the Emergency days and demanded a probe by a Joint Parliamentary Committee into the matter.
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"The phone tapping issue is getting murkier by the day. We have already given a notice for discussion on the issue when the Lok Sabha meets for the Budget session next month. We will demand setting up of a Joint Parliamentary Committee to probe the matter," BJP Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha V K Malhotra told PTI.
"The fact that three persons have been arrested in the case confirms that tapping had taken place. Still it is not enough for the prime minister to say it is a serious issue. He will have to find out who is the power behind it. If the government does not know about it, it shows its incompetence. If it is taking place with its connivance, it is all the more serious," he said in the party's first official reaction to the phone tapping charges made by Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh.
Recalling the Watergate scandal and the phone tapping case involving the then Karnataka Chief Minister Ramkrishna Hegde, who had to subsequently resign, he said, "The country should know how many telephones are being tapped, who are the political leaders under surveillance. The tapping of phones of Opposition leaders reminds one of Emergency days."
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