{"id":8672,"date":"2011-02-02T16:29:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T10:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/?p=8672"},"modified":"2011-02-02T16:29:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T10:59:53","slug":"court-pulls-up-government-in-amar-singh-tapping-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-pulls-up-government-in-amar-singh-tapping-case","title":{"rendered":"Court pulls up government in Amar Singh tapping case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Amar-Singh.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8673\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/court-pulls-up-government-in-amar-singh-tapping-case\/amar-singh\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/02\/Amar-Singh.jpg?fit=240%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"240,200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Amar Singh\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/02\/Amar-Singh.jpg?fit=240%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8673\" title=\"Amar Singh\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.in\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Amar-Singh.jpg?resize=240%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/02\/Amar-Singh.jpg?w=240&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/02\/Amar-Singh.jpg?resize=150%2C125&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>The Supreme Court Wednesday pulled up the central government and other contenders in the Amar Singh wire tapping case for filing a &#8216;very casual and vague&#8217; affidavit and asked them to file a fresh one.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court bench of Justices G.S. Singhvi and A.K. Ganguly said casual and vague affidavits have been filed by all on such a serious issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It is a very serious issue and all the affidavits have been filed in a very casual manner,&#8217; the court said.<\/p>\n<p>The court asked Solicitor General Gopal Subramanian to file the status report on the case relating to the criminal conspiracy before going to the trial court.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing for the petitioner Amar Singh, senior counsel Harish Salve said that though Delhi Police has washed off its hands by saying that the letter on which his client&#8217;s phone was tapped were forged, right to privacy had been breached and could not be overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the central government was under constitutional mandate to protect his client&#8217;s right to privacy. He said telecom operators were working under its (centre) license.<\/p>\n<p>The case relates to Amar Singh&#8217;s wire tapping, which created furore in the political circle. Initially, Singh had alleged that he was the target of vendetta by his political adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>Amar Singh is a former Samajwadi Party leader and member of Rajya Sabha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court Wednesday pulled up the central government and other contenders in the Amar Singh wire tapping case for filing a &#8216;very casual and vague&#8217; affidavit and asked them to file a fresh one. The apex court bench of Justices G.S. Singhvi and A.K. 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