Delhi Police on Tuesday chargesheeted four persons in BJP leader Arun Jaitley phone-tapping case and said one of the accused did this on a "personal level" to allegedly rescue himself from criminal proceedings going against him in 2005 Amar Singh phone-tapping case.
The Special Cell of Delhi Police filed its charge sheet before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Amit Bansal who took cognisance of the final report and posted the matter for further proceeding on April 30.
In its charge sheet filed against Delhi Police constable Arvind Dabas, 35, and three private detectives, Anurag Singh, 37, Neeraj Nayar, 36, and Nitish Singh, 30, who are now in judicial custody, it said Anurag, the alleged mastermind, was obtaining call detail records (CDRs) of Jaitley and others expecting it could be "exploited" in rescuing himself from the Amar Singh case.
"At this juncture, it is submitted that on his personal level, Anurag was obtaining these CDRs for the purpose of somehow finding contacts in the circles of political/business /media power houses which he expected could be exploited in his efforts of rescuing himself from the criminal legal process staring at him in ... Amar Singh phone-tapping case," the police said.
The police said Anurag, along with others, was arrested on December 30, 2005 in the Amar Singh phone tapping case.
The special cell had in December 2005 registered a case after allegations that Amar Singh's phone was tapped by some "unscrupulous elements" and during the investigation, Anurag was arrested along with others for allegedly forging letters of the then Joint Commissioner of Police and the Home Secretary of Delhi government to tap the phone of Amar Singh.
In its charge sheet filed today, the police said "Anurag, along with Nitish, was involved in the racket of obtaining CDRs through Neeraj and Arvind."
Detailing the roles of the accused, the police said CDRs of five numbers, including three belonging to Jaitley, were sought by them by using "unauthorised e-mail id of ACP, operations, New Delhi District, on January 8, 2013.
It said that besides Jaitley's three numbers, CDRs of a phone at BJP headquarters and one Shyam Maik were sought from the mobile service operators by the accused.
It said only sub-divisional ACPs, ACPs (operations), ACPs of crime branch and special cell were authorised to get CDRs.
Regarding Arvind, the police said the IP address, through which request for CDRs was sent to mobile service providers, belonged to M/s Mangalam Automobiles in Noida and on "verification, it was learnt that the automobile workshop belongs to Delhi Police constable Arvind Dabas posted at Parliament street police station."
It said Arvind was having knowledge of computer and so he was "entrusted with handling the computer of ACP, operations, New Delhi district, where he used to send and receive e-mails concerning requisition of CDRs in April, 2012."
The police said that during Arvind's interrogation, it was found out that "he was illegally accessing official e-mail id of ACP, operations, New Delhi district since November 2012 on a demand from Neeraj Nayar, a freelance detective, at a price of Rs 1,500 per CDR and Rs 200 for providing subscriber details."
It said that after Arvind was arrested on February 15, 2013, five CPUs were recovered at his instance from the automobile workshop in Noida and on the basis of his statement, Neeraj was arrested a day later.
The police further said that during the probe, Neeraj said he used to pass on the information received from Arvind to Nitish, a private detective working with detective agency 'V Detect' belonging to Anurag.
On the basis of the disclosure statements of Arvind and Neeraj, Nitish and Anurag were arrested on February 18, 2013, the police said.
"As soon as the news that some illegal activities had been reported qua the cell number of Arun Jaitley broke in the media, accused Nitish, as per directions of Anurag Singh, deleted all the available CDRs from his laptop after uploading the same on another e-mail id..thereafter, both Nitish and Anurag securely formatted their laptop," the police said.
The police said that during the investigation, out of the total recovered 52 CDRs, 30 CDRs were obtained by "illegally accessing the official e-mail id of ACP operations of New Delhi district."
It said the response from Gmail regarding contents of some of the mails exchanged between the accused persons is yet to be received while Yahoo has given them some details about some other e-mails.
The investigating officer (IO) told the court that they are yet to receive forensic reports and 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 charge sheet and documents to all the four accused persons," the CMM said.
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