Chargesheet on Jaitley CDR filed,cops say motive proof ‘preliminary’
The Delhi Police on Tuesday filed a chargesheet against four persons arrested for illegally accessing call detail records of politicians including BJP leader Arun Jaitley.
The Delhi Police on Tuesday filed a chargesheet against four persons arrested for illegally accessing call detail records (CDRs) of politicians including BJP leader Arun Jaitley.
Suspended police constable Arvind Dabas and private detectives Anurag Singh,Neeraj Nayar and Nitish Singh have been booked IPC under Sections 420 (cheating),464 (making a false document),467 (forgery of a valuable security),468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating),471 (using as genuine a forged document),120B (criminal conspiracy) and 66 of the IT Act.
Officers of the Special Cell filed the chargesheet in the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Amit Bansal. They said evidences at this stage are “preliminary and based upon the confessions of the accused” on what could have been the “motives” for the crime.
“At this juncture it is submitted that at his personal level,Anurag Singh was obtaining CDRs for the purpose of somehow finding contacts in the circles of political,business and media power houses,which he was expecting to exploit in his efforts to rescue himself from the criminal legal processes staring him in the face,consequent to the framing of charges… in the Amar Singh phone tapping case of 2005,” police said.
Police told the court that “further motives,if any,shall get established in the due course of time” and stated that “a lot of electronic evidence” was suspected to have been deleted by the accused.
A hard disk recovered from Anurag Singh,which police believe contains crucial details,has been sent to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory. “A supplementary chargesheet will be filed once the results are received from CSFL,” an officer told the court.
Taking cognizance of the chargesheet,the CMM directed the investigating officer to “expedite” filing of the CFSL report after police said they had not yet received some reports from the mobile and Internet service providers. Statements of over 35 witnesses have been included in the chargesheet,which runs into more than a thousand pages.
As many as 52 CDRs were accessed between September 2012 and January 2013 by the accused. To protect the identity of the numbers,the police have submitted the mobile numbers to the court in a sealed cover.
On learning that some persons had used an official email ID to access the CDR of Jaitley and former BJP president Nitin Gadkari,police probed all the requests made to the mobile service provider from the email ID of ACP(Operations),New Delhi.
Police said on several occasions,call detail requests were sent from a computer that did not belong to the office of the ACP (Operations). The IP address was traced to Mangalam Automobiles in Noida Sector-57. Dabas was arrested after he was found running a car service centre under that name. His arrest led to the three private detectives.
Advocate Naushad Ahmad Khan,appearing for Dabas,asked the court to expedite the reports of the CFSL and others.
“The police do not have any evidence against the accused. Why have they sealed important parts of the chargesheet? It should be in public domain. This is not a matter of national security,” he said.
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