New Delhi:
Four people have been arrested by the Delhi Police for trying to access the cellphone records of BJP leader Arun Jaitley.
The first arrest over the weekend was of a Delhi constable named Arvind Dabas; after that, three private detectives have been arrested.
The police says that in recent weeks, the same gang tried to access the cellphone records of at least 12 politicians, telegraphing "a larger conspiracy."
The police is trying to determine if the gang was hired by what they described as "someone powerful" looking for information about politicians.
Mr Dabas allegedly tried to use the official email address of a senior police officer to petition a telecom to share call detail records for the BJP leader.
Senior leaders from Mr Jaitley's party have demanded an apology from the Centre for the alleged phone tapping. "The government should explain why his phone was tapped. Without any reason, the phone of a person cannot be tapped. The government should apologise to Arun Jaitley and should also take stern action against the officials involved in it," BJP's Murli Manohar Joshi told reporters last week.
The first arrest over the weekend was of a Delhi constable named Arvind Dabas; after that, three private detectives have been arrested.
The police says that in recent weeks, the same gang tried to access the cellphone records of at least 12 politicians, telegraphing "a larger conspiracy."
The police is trying to determine if the gang was hired by what they described as "someone powerful" looking for information about politicians.
Mr Dabas allegedly tried to use the official email address of a senior police officer to petition a telecom to share call detail records for the BJP leader.
Senior leaders from Mr Jaitley's party have demanded an apology from the Centre for the alleged phone tapping. "The government should explain why his phone was tapped. Without any reason, the phone of a person cannot be tapped. The government should apologise to Arun Jaitley and should also take stern action against the officials involved in it," BJP's Murli Manohar Joshi told reporters last week.
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