Amar Singh meets Delhi Police in phone tapping case

     New Delhi: Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh appeared at the Lodi Road police station here in response to notices served to him by the Delhi police in connection with investigations into his phone tapping allegations. According to Police sources, he reached the Special Cell office at 2 pm. Talking to the media persons Singh said that "I have no faith in Delhi Police." "On the one hand my telephone was being tapped and on the other hand they (Delhi Police) summoned me for interrogation," said Singh. Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh repeated his allegation that the Congress party was behind the telephone tapping. "It is a conspiracy against me hatched with a motive of revenge," Singh said. Singh further alleged that Congress leaders threatened him at his house. "Ashok Gehlot says they were not Congress people but I have information about each and every Congress person," he added. "I have videos of everyone and I will drag each one of them to court. Ambika Soni said I went to the court to be able to suppress the contents of the tape. For this, I will file a case against her. I am a man. I would prefer to die rather than getting bow-down said Amar Singh. Relations between the two parties have soured following Amar Singh's allegation that Sonia Gandhi was behind the phone tapping incident.

   Also, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav had alleged that Congress party President Sonia Gandhi had asked Government agencies to tap telephones of senior SP leaders, saying the telephones of the party members were "being tracked by the Delhi Police at the behest of 10, Janpath". Yadav had said that the conversation of Amar Singh was regularly being tapped and his phone had a direct link to the phone of Joint Commissioner (Crime), North Zone, Delhi, adding that the order for this operation was given by the Principal Secretary, Home. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had, however, refuted the allegations, terming the allegations as "totally baseless". Delhi Police has so far arrested three persons in connection with the phone tapping case. The arrested persons are Bhupendra, the owner of a private detective agency, who was nabbed on December 30, Kuldeep Singh, an employee of the Reliance Infocomm, who had allegedly helped Bhupendra and an associate of Bhupendra. Delhi Police had registered a case of forgery, cheating, criminal conspiracy and other relevant sections of the Indian Telegraph Act in connection with the allegations made by Mulayam Singh Yadav.

    Singh on Monday had moved to the Supreme Court seeking a judicial probe into the issue. Singh has made the Union Home Secretary, V.K.Duggal, Reliance Infocomm - the phone service provider and Delhi Police respondents in his petition to the Supreme Court. Singh also enlisted the support of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu who have separately alleged that their telephones were also tapped. Singh has said that the phone tapping issue is not linked with the withdrawal of support to the UPA Government. He has clarified that the phone tapping issue is a subject of national rather than political consequence. Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee spokesperson Akhilesh Pratap Singh has said that the Delhi Police must disclose the contents of the tapes seized from the persons involved in the phone tapping episode.

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