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DNA EXCLUSIVE - SIT to Union Ministry of Home Affairs Nothing wrong in Essar calls

There is no immediate clarity whether the SIT report, submitted last month, is a clean chit to Essar or allegations against it will be continue to be probed. The team was probing two aspects: whether phones were tapped legally or illegally and whether there was any conspiracy of corruption or threat to national interest in the conversations.

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DNA EXCLUSIVE - SIT to Union Ministry of Home Affairs Nothing wrong in Essar calls

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  1. DNA EXCLUSIVE - SIT to Union Ministry of Home Affairs: Nothing wrong in Essar calls

  2. The Delhi police has found no trace of corruption or threat to national security in a stash of transcripts of calls between politicians and high-profile people in the Essar phone tapping case. "No cognizable offence was made out in the conversations received from complaint lawyer Suren Uppal," its Special Investigation Team (SIT) has said in its report to the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). Source URL: https://www.dnaindia.com/business/report-dna-exclusive-sit-to- union-ministry-of-home-affairs-nothing-wrong-in-essar-calls-2612306

  3. The SIT was formed in July 2016 on MHA's directions to probe the case that pertains to alleged tapping, interception and recording of phone calls of politicians, government officials and business houses by the corporate major between 2001 and 2006. There is no immediate clarity whether the SIT report, submitted last month, is a clean chit to Essar or allegations against it will be continue to be probed. The team was probing two aspects: whether phones were tapped legally or illegally and whether there was any conspiracy of corruption or threat to national interest in the conversations.

  4. There were allegations that phones of former union ministers who held portfolios like railways, finance and defence; heads of India's conglomerates and their wives; Bollywood actors; senior bureaucrats; and heads of PSU banks had been tapped. The intercepts include conversations of key members of the PMO under then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee such as NK Singh, Ranjan Bhattacharya and Brajesh Mishra. biggest corporate

  5. Calls of senior Cabinet Ministers such as then Telecom Minister, late Pramod Mahajan, and Petroleum Minister Ram Naik were also alleged to be tapped. The phone numbers of promoters of undivided Reliance Group were also "tapped".

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