SC notice to Centre on Amar CDs plea

Jan 15, 2011 - Age Correspondent |

New Delhi

In a virtual alarm to former Samajwadi Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, the Supreme Court on Friday issued notice on a petition for lifting the ban on publication of the transcripts of his tapped conversations with several prominent figures akin to the Radia tapes.

The petition for lifting of the top court stay on the telecast, broadcast and publication of the transcripts of “Amar Singh CDs” was sought by NGO, Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) through its lawyer Prashant Bhushan.
A bench of Justices G.S. Singhvi and A.K. Ganguly monitoring the 2G scam case probe and seized of top industrialist Ratan Tata’s petition on the leak of the Radia tapes took on record the “interlocutory” application filed by Mr Bhushan and issued notices to the Centre, Amar Singh and the Delhi police, which had ordered tapping of his phone.
The top court in an interim order of July 27, 2006 had banned the publication, telecast and broadcast of the Amar Singh CDs after he had filed a petition claiming that his phones were tapped “illegally” by the Delhi police and all his conversations were in “private” with various persons, which also included political figures and film personalities.

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Phase 2 of Amar’s yatra starts Jan. 17
Age Correspondent
New Delhi

Jan. 14: Lok Manch president and former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh is to kickstart the second phase of his padyatra from January 17 to demand a separate state of Poorvanchal in eastern UP.
Mr Amar Singh, in a statement, said on Friday that he would be undertaking a 250-km-long padyatra from Ballia on January 17, which will culminate on February 1 at Chandouli in eastern UP.
“After the 450-km-long padyatra in the first phase, I shall be logging in 700 km after the completion of the second phase of padyatra, which has not been done by any political leader so far,” Mr Singh added in the statement.

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