Agencies screening Infocomm papers

Security agencies are scrutinising purported internal communication between top officials of the country’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 company’s head office in Mumbai.