Agencies screening Infocomm papers

Security agencies are scrutinising purported internal communication between top officials of the country8217;s biggest telecom operator, Reliance Infocomm RIC to check whether national security was impacted in re-routing of international calls as local ones by the company.

RIC has been fined Rs 150 crore in March by the Department of Telecom DoT for re-routing calls, an action upheld by TDSAT, although the company has denied any wrong doings. Well-placed sources said the agencies have collected over a hundred documents, including more than two dozen e-mails, purportedly exchanged between top officials of Reliance Infocomm about the operations of the home country direct service under which international calls were re-routed.

Informed sources said on Sunday that the exercise was on to check veracity of the e-mails understood to have been collected since January this year from various places, including from the company8217;s head office in Mumbai.