Phones of leaders tapped: Report

The phones of some prominent political leaders including Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and Congress leader Digvijay Singh have been tapped, a prominent English news weekly has claimed.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat have also been tapped by the National Technical Research Organisation, an intelligence agency created in the aftermath of the Kargil war to cover all aspects of technical intelligence gathering, Outlook magazine said in its latest issue.

While the phones of Singh and Kumar were tapped in 2007 and that of Karat in 2008 at the height of his Opposition to the Indo-US nuclear deal, leading to the no-confidence motion against the government, the telephone of Pawar was tapped and taped last fortnight in the wake of the scandal in the IPL.