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HC on Phone Tapping
July 5 , 2025
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- Phone tapping for crime detection violates the fundamental right to privacy.
- Indian Telegraph Act of 1885 sets a ‘Lakshman Rekha’ limiting phone tapping.
- The court’s role is only to check if this limit is crossed.
- The right to privacy was traced back to 1604, recognized under Article 21 by the Supreme Court in the 1996 PUCL case.
- The People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) verdict was upheld by the Constitution Bench in the 2017 K.S. Puttaswamy case.
- Phone tapping was allowed only in cases of public emergency or public safety.
- The Court had quashed the 2011 phone tapping order in a bribery case for lack of legal basis.
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