Rajasthan phone-tapping case: Delhi Police register FIR on grievance from Shekhawat

The Crime Branch of Delhi Police registered an FIR on Thursday on a grievance by Union Minister for Jal Shakti Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and initiated an investigation into the Rajasthan phone-tapping case.
Police stated Shekhawat lodged a grievance in opposition to Rajasthan Chief Minister’s Officer on Special Duty Lokesh Sharma final week at Tughlak Road police station.
A senior police officer stated the case was transferred Thursday to the Crime Branch and an FIR was registered below sections of Indian Telegraph Act, IT Act, prison conspiracy and prison breach of belief.
Last yr, Deputy CM Sachin Pilot led a rise up of 19 Congress MLAs over ‘leaked’ telephone name recordings. The Opposition BJP has been demanding a CBI inquiry into the matter.
The FIR has been registered in opposition to unknown individuals for “illegally intercepting telephonic conversations” of a number of MLAs and individuals and circulating them to numerous media homes. Shekhawat stated within the grievance that this was finished to attain “unlawful objectives and to cause injury to the reputation and mental peace of the complainant”.
The leaked telephone calls have been aired final yr on July 17. The FIR mentions the ‘leaked’ conversations have been between the complainant and an MLA.
A discover was despatched to media homes three days after the leaked calls have been aired and Shekhawat stated that within the reply given by the media homes, they “disclosed the name of Lokesh Sharma, as the person who provided them with the intercepted conversation”.
Shekhawat stated within the grievance that the calls have been leaked “to secure political ends” and violated privateness.
On March 17 this yr, Cabinet Minister Shanti Dhariwal additionally said that the audio was leaked by Sharma, stated the FIR.
Shekhawat has alleged that different officers from the Home Department and Police division conspired with Sharma to leak the calls.
A senior police officer stated they’ve initiated an investigation and are verifying the allegations.