The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) orally informed the Supreme Court that it could not find anything criminal in the intercepted conversations of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia with some politicians, businessmen, media persons, and others.
“I must inform you that the CBI was directed by your lordship to investigate all these conversations. Fourteen preliminary inquiries were registered and the report was placed before your lordships in a sealed cover. No criminality was found in those. Also, now there are phone-tapping guidelines in place,” Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for the CBI, told a three-judge Bench headed by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud.
The Bench had taken up the case which includes industrialist Ratan Tata’s petition seeking right to privacy in view of the emergence of the Radia tapes.
