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Niira Radia tapes: SC issues notice to Centre by Dhananjay Mahapatra


The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the Central government on a PIL seeking disclosure of contents of all tapes of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia which were tapped by government agencies, except pure private conversations.

A bench of justices G S Singhvi and S S Nijjar issued notice to the Centre and adjourned the matter for further hearing on February 2.

The court passed the order on a petition filed by civil society, Centre for Public Interest Litigation, seeking disclosure of the entire 5,800 conversations Radia had with different people, including ministers, journalists and corporate honchos, saying that it was in public interest to disclose the contents as it might reveal corruption in different government departments.

The petition said that keeping the Radia tapes secret would amount to not telling people how high and mighty conspired to play a fraud on the nation in the irregular allocation of 2G spectrum.

The government had taped Radia's telephonic conversation on a complaint to the finance ministry that she had been allegedly indulging in anti-national activities.