UPA govt intercepted 9000 telephone calls, 500 emails in 2013: Sambit Patra

Interception of calls, emails done illegally during UPA govt, says BJP

The BJP Sunday claimed that interception of calls and emails were done illegally during the Congress-led UPA government while Modi dispensation has adopted legal means with its order designating 10 agencies to do so.
 

In an order on Thursday, the Union Home Ministry authorised 10 central agencies to intercept, monitor, and decrypt "any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer". The centre's order had come under attack from the opposition who said that the move was "unconstitutional and an assault on fundamental rights" and demanded its immediate withdrawal.
 

BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra showed that in two RTI replies