Jaitley call records: Bassi tells House panel ‘yet to find motive’

Jaitley was Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha when Special Cell of the Delhi Police arrested three police officers for allegedly procuring CDR of his mobile phones in February 2013.

Two years after the call records of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley were unauthorisedly procured by the Delhi Police and given to private detectives, police commissioner B S Bassi told a parliamentary panel that they were yet to “find the motive” behind the crime. The committee also grilled Home Ministry officials that at least six “off-air interceptors” procured by the Indian Army in the past had made their way to the hands of private players and there were strong indications that they were being misused to tap the phones of MPs as well as others.

Jaitley was Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha when Special Cell of the Delhi Police arrested three police officers for allegedly procuring CDR of his mobile phones in February 2013. The BJP, in the Opposition then, raised the issue in Parliament and it was referred to the Privileges Committee.

The Committee summoned Home Secretary L C Goyal and police chief B S Bassi on Tuesday to know the progress of the case. “The commissioner said that though they had arrested the accused they were yet to find the motive behind the crime.

Police can get a mute person to sing and here they have not been able to establish the motive,” said a MPs who attended the meeting. He added that the committee raised the issue of “off-air interceptors” falling in wrong hands, thereby putting several MPs and others at the risk of snooping.

Source:: Indian Express