Harish Rao faults SIT chief’s view on phone-tapping case

HYDERABAD

Deputy Floor Leader of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) successful the Assembly and erstwhile Minister T. Harish Rao powerfully objected to the mode successful which the main of the peculiar probe squad (SIT) of the phone-tapping lawsuit V.C. Sajjanar has publically referred to the contented of phone-tapping arsenic ‘illegal’ adjacent earlier the substance has been examined and decided by a competent tribunal of law.

In a statement, Mr. Rao said connected Monday that specified a connection is profoundly disturbing, particularly coming from the caput of a SIT. In a law democracy, it is simply a well-settled rule that until a tribunal of instrumentality records a finding, nary allegation tin beryllium treated arsenic an offence.

He pointed retired that the relation of the constabulary is strictly constricted to probe and that constabulary officers are not judges oregon adjudicators and they person nary authorization to state immoderate enactment arsenic ‘illegal’ astatine the signifier of inquiry. He was reacting to a societal media station of Mr. Sajjanar, wherein helium stated that ‘SIT has concluded the questioning of Gajwel MLA and erstwhile Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao successful transportation with the amerciable phone-tapping case’.

The BRS person explained that whether immoderate telephone interception is ineligible oregon amerciable depends wholly connected the strict compliance with Section 5(2) of the Indian Telegraph Act, the Information Technology Act and the safeguards laid down by the Supreme Court. Any deviation oregon usurpation tin beryllium determined lone done judicial scrutiny and not done constabulary communication.

By utilizing the look ‘illegal telephone tapping’ successful a connection successful his authoritative capacity, the SIT Chief has displayed a preconceived conception astir the result of the investigation, Mr. Harish Rao said and added that it runs contrary to the standards of neutrality, restraint and impartiality mandated nether the All India Services (Conduct) Rules, 1968.