Phone tapping has become a major concern to look upon. Recently, The Andhra Pradesh High Court has raised eyebrows over allegations of phone tapping of a judge by the YSRCP led state government. The division bench of two judges hearing a petition termed the allegations as a serious issue. The Andhra Pradesh court was hearing a petition filed by Nimmi Grace, a lawyer from Gopalapatnam in Vizag district on the alleged phone tapping by the state government.
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The advocate for the petitioner, Shravan Kumar alleged that the Chief Secretary, the DGP and Home Secretary had violated several laws by giving nod to tap the phone of a judge. An advocate was called for a special investigation or a CBI probe into the matter. The court directed the petitioner to file an additional affidavit over the allegations of phone tapping of a judge with more details. The next hearing of the petition is on Thursday.
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The Additional Advocate General on behalf of the state government called the allegations based on a media report. The Advocate General argued that the media house which published the news report should be made a respondent, but the court disagreed. Earlier, controversy erupted in Andhra Pradesh with the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) chief and former Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu writing to PM Narendra Modi with allegations of phone tapping of opposition party leaders, lawyers, journalists and activists.