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Bajwa writes to HC CJ, raises the issue of illegal Tapping of the Phones
Tapping of phones is illegal, violation SC directions
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Chandigarh , November 16,2015 : Punjab Congress President Partap Singh Bajwa has alleged that Punjab Police has been tapping the phones of the various leaders and citizens illegally . He has also alleged that this is the violation of directions of Indian Supreme Court . Mr Bajwa in a letter written to the Chief Justice of Punjab and Haryana High Court Bajwa urged CJ to treat this letter as a petition and take suo motu cognizance into this issue of illegal surveillance and snooping by the Punjab Government. The following is the full text of the letter written to CJ : To Hon'ble Mr. Justice Shiavax Jal Vazifdar The Acting Chief Justice, Punjab and Haryana High Court, Chandigarh. Sub.:- ‘Prayer for treating this letter as a petition and taking cognizance of the illegal tapping of phones being done in Punjab by the Police authorities in utter violation of the Hon’ble Supreme Court’s directions.’ Your Lordship, This is to bring to your attention the illegal surveillance activities that the Punjab Government has been indulging in to settle political scores which is blatantly in violation of the Hon’ble Supreme Court’s directions issued in People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) v. Union of India AIR 1997 (SC) 568. On 10th November, 2015 there was a Sarbat Khalsa congregation. The Akali Dal has maliciously played a game of Machiavellian proportions to make its main political rival look like they were extending their support to the Sarbat Khalsa. A Punjab Government Minister played what sounded like a telephonic conversation between two Congress leaders alleging them of sending their supporters to the Sarbat Khalsa and advising them on political resolutions. The Punjab Government called a press conference to dramatically heighten the impact by revealing these alleged purported conversations that were elicited through illegal means. The snooping was conducted under the aegis of the Deputy Chief Minister cum Home Minister of Punjab, Sukhbir Singh Badal. The law on the subject of phone tapping or surveillance clearly states that it can only be carried out in accordance with the strict procedures laid down under the Indian Telegraph Act. The Indian Telegraph Act clearly states that links to organized crime need to be clearly established to justify surveillance on Indian citizens. The Punjab Government has not been able to prove any of this before snooping on their opponents in the Congress party. In the past a sitting Supreme Court Judge and the then Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Justice Tirath Singh Thakur had written to the then Chief Justice of India about snooping by the Punjab Police on Hon’ble Judges of the High Court. He alleged that the then Director of Vigilance, Punjab, Sumedh Singh Saini had fabricated evidence against nine Judges of the High Court in 2008 by tapping their telephones. These incidents further bolster the widespread belief that the Punjab Government uses its police force to spy on political opponents. A copy of this letter is annexed as Annexure P-1. The Punjab Police is splurging taxpayer funds to purchase state of the art surveillance equipment that include room bugs and button cameras to snoop on political adversaries. Sumedh Singh Saini was recently replaced as Director General of Police in a bid to mollify the agitated public because of police inaction in the case of the desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib. In a strange coincidence, Saini happens to be a member of a state level committee that approved the purchase of all this snooping equipment. In order to lend credibility to these actions, these purchases are being made under the guise of counter terrorism measures. However nothing could be further from the truth, this equipment has been used in the past to listen to private conversations between politicians, the judiciary and members of the media only to blackmail them later. Another example of the Punjab Police’s duplicity was when they arrested two innocent brothers, Jaswinder Singh and Rupinder Singh under trumped up charges in the case of the desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib. They went to the extent of bizarrely accusing a foreign hand as a motivator to desecrate the Guru Granth Sahib without possessing a shred of evidence to support the claim. When this case was brought to Court, the two brothers were immediately released and the foreign hand theory was debunked. This creates an environment of fear and rumour mongering, which is then used by the Punjab Government to use its police force with a Gestapo like ruthlessness. This convenient chicken and egg situation has eerie parallels with the Watergate scandal that rocked the American political establishment under Nixon’s watch. The primary defense of the Intelligence Department, which is headed by Sukhbir Singh Badal, is that they did not snoop on the Congress leaders but obtained these conversations from the Facebook account of a Youth Akali Dal leader. In the unlikely event of this being true, this calls into question the veracity and authenticity of these conversations. I humbly urge you in the interest of justice to take suo motu cognizance into this issue of illegal surveillance and snooping by the Punjab Government. If the Punjab Police continues to behave like the private militia of the Badal family, an already disillusioned public could resort to drastic measures. There is evidence of this happening as recently as three decades ago. If this problem is not nipped in the bud Punjab will continue to fail her people on every single social justice metric that the world measures. Thanking You, Sir. Yours faithfully, (Partap Singh Bajwa)
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