Arun Jaitley phone tapping case: Delhi Police files chargesheet,names four

The police has named Delhi Police constable Arvind Dabas and three private detectives — Anurag,Neeraj,and Nitish — who all are in judicial custody in connection with the case.

The investigating officer IO told the court that they are yet to receive various forensic reports and the records of the mobile service provider,after which the court directed the police to expedite their investigation.

“The IO has submitted that the report from the FSL,CFSL and mobile service operators is yet to be submitted. The IO is directed to expedite the probe and file the said reports on record at the earliest. IO is already directed to supply the copy of chargesheet and documents to all the four accused persons,” the CMM said.

The police in its chargesheet has booked the accused under sections 420 cheating,464 making a false document,467 forgery of a valuable security,468 forgery for the purpose of cheating and 471 using as genuine a forged document and 120B criminal conspiracy of IPC and under section 66 of the Information Technology Act.

The police has filed around 1000 pages of documents along with the charge sheet and has named 36 persons as prosecution witnesses in the case.

Dabas was arrested on February 14 for allegedly trying to access Jaitley’s call details. According to police,Dabas had used the official email ID of an Assistant Commissioner of Police ACP to send a request to a mobile service provider for the call detail records CDRs of the senior BJP leader.

Neeraj was arrested by the police on February 18,while the other two accused,Anurag and Nitish were taken into custody on February 19.

Earlier,the police had told the court that during the ongoing probe,it has come to light that call detail records CDRs of 30 other persons have also been collected by the four accused and in most of the cases,the Internet protocol IP address of Dabas was used.

The Special Cell of Delhi Police had also told the court that password of the official email ID of the ACP was taken unauthorisedly by Dabas at the time when he was posted in special staff and he had collected the CDRs in some cases while he had also attempted to get more records which only the authorised person could have collected.

The police had said that the four accused had induced the telecom service providers to provide CDRs of various persons,including Jaitley,to them and they,in an organised manner,have impinged upon and attacked the personal liberty of a sitting MP and others.

Dabas’ lawyer had opposed the claims of the police and had told the court that the ACP’s role should also be thoroughly investigated and the case was not about phone tapping but it was about unauthorised procurement of the CDRs.

He had also said there was no direct evidence against his client and he was falsely implicated in the case by the police.