of the taped conversations of him with top politicians and Bollywood stars. Soon after the apex court order several websites have started running the banned CDs of Amar Singh.
A bench, comprising Justices G S Singhvi and A K Ganguly, dismissed the petition filed by Amar Singh challenging the tapping of his telephone conversations by the Delhi Police on the grounds that it has violated the privacy of an individual citizen of the country.
A bench headed by the then Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal had restrained the authorities from making the tapes public. With today’s order, the interim stay also stands vacated.
Mr Singh had earlier blamed the Congress for harassing and targeting him but during the final hearing he did a volte face and gave clean chit to the party and its president Sonia Gandhi.
The apex court bench, however, said the politician may file a case against Reliance Infocom for illegally tapping his phone. The court, said that no case is made out against the Centre and its authorities as they were not involved in tapping Singh’s telephone.
Centre for Public Interest Litigation through its lawyer Prashant Bhushan had pleaded that it was the right of people to know the alleged illegal dealings of public figures in the discharge of their public function. The application said this right of the people was guaranteed by the Article 19(1) (a) of the constitution and also upheld by the apex court.