'Essar Tapes': Home Ministry Probes Phone Tapping Complaint
The Home Ministry has ordered a probe into an alleged phone tapping scandal which targeted top government officials and industrialists between 2001 and 2006 after a complaint to the Prime Minister's Office. The Indian Express newspaper and Outlook magazine had first reported on Friday that corporate conglomerate Essar Group had allegedly tapped phones of several cabinet ministers, business chiefs Mukesh Ambani and Anil Ambani and many bureaucrats over five years.
