Phone Tapping: 10 SC lawyers serve govt legal notice
Staff Correspondent
Staff Correspondent
Ten Supreme Court lawyers yesterday served a legal notice on the government in order to know what necessary steps have been taken to prevent the incidents of phone tapping and to ensure the right to privacy of telecommunication.
Advocate Mohammad Shishir Manir, head of Law Lab researching law and constitution, sent the legal notice on behalf of 10 lawyers to the authorities concerned, requesting them to inform the notice senders about the measures taken to this effect in seven working days.
If the respondents of the legal notice do not provide the information in seven days, the notice senders will have no other option but to take legal action against them for getting proper redress, without making any further reference, he said in the legal notice.
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The lawyers led by Mohammad Shishir Manir handed over the application to the ACC office, requesting the commission to conduct investigation and lodge a case against the chief election commissioner, election commissioners, EC secretary, just retired EC secretary and other government officials responsible for the loss of the state money.