The Delhi High Court Tuesday sought the Centre's response on a plea seeking setting up of an SIT to investigate alleged illegal phone tapping of National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval by the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The petition claimed that phones of several others were also tapped when the CBI was witnessing a feud between its then Director Alok Verma and Special Director Rakesh Asthana. A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice VK Rao issued a notice to the Ministry of Home Affairs and the CBI, seeking their responses on the plea. The petition by Sarthak Chaturvedi, an advocate, has alleged that the illegal act of "abuse of power" was committed by some public servants working in the agency "for their ulterior motive".
