Govt issued an order authorising 10 security and investigative agencies and Delhi Police to "intercept, monitor and decrypt any information generated, transmitted, received or stored on any computer"
Surveillance must require authorisation from a magistrate
Govt notification could be challenged in Supreme Court, say experts
Taking to Twitter, Congress President Rahul Gandhi called Modi an 'insecure dictator'
The order was passed late night Thursday by the 'cyber and information security' division of the Union Home ministry under the authority of Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba
Jaitley said the rules under which agencies have been authorised to intercept were framed in 2009 when the Congress-led UPA was in power
TMC's Sukhendu Sekhar Roy labelled the move "draconian" and accused the government of tapping the phones of all opposition leaders
The Pentagon confirmed that two Chinese jets had carried out the intercept
The NSO Group is one of a number of companies that sell surveillance tools that can capture all the activity on a smartphone
Stock exchanges have suspended trading in nearly 200 securities of listed companies, moved over 150 scrips to lower price bands during the last 2 years