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“Further investigations are on. Whoever is involved in such an act should be brought to book. Someone who has dared to get the call details in such an unauthorised way is a serious matter,” Singh said.
Party spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said, “BJP condemns this unauthorised surveillance on its leader Arun Jaitley. It is a serious issue. The home minister owes an explanation and must come clean as to who ordered the collection of information on call details of Jaitley.”
Javadekar alleged this was not the first time that attempts were made in more than one police stations in Delhi to seek the call details of Jaitley and questioned the government as to who ordered collection of such information.
“We want to remind the Congress that these are not the days of emergency that you can indulge in such activity. We will not take it lying down,” he said.
A Delhi Police constable was arrested on February 14 for allegedly trying to access the call details of the Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha. The 32-year-old Arvind Dabas was arrested and a probe was initiated to find out other two people who tried to access the details, police sources said.
Dabas allegedly tried to use the official email ID of an ACP to send a request to a mobile service provider for the call detail records. Jaitley had not lodged a complaint, but police registered a case a few days ago. A probe was launched to ascertain whether any official had sought details about his call records or if it was a case of impersonation.
Reports had it that the nodal officer of a telecom service provider had called the police to inform that they had received a request from the police seeking call detail records of Jaitley.