New Delhi: Union Government on Monday ordered an enquiry into the Nira Radia tapes. Intelligence Bureau and Central Board of Direct Taxes have been asked to find out who leaked the taped phone conversation of corporate lobbyist Radia with journalists, business leaders, politicians and bureaucrats.
Sources have told CNN-IBN that Union Home Secretary GK Pillai wrote to Revenue Secretary Sunil Mitra to order an enquiry by CBDT into the leak. The enquiry will also focus of those who published the tapes and gave it to Supreme Court.
Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata on Monday filed a petition in the Supreme Court, seeking action against those responsible for leaking his taped conversations with Radia.
Tata's petition in the Supreme Court claimed that the leaks and their subsequent publication were a violation of his right to privacy while seeking restraint on the publication of the taped conversations between him and Radia.
The conversations were authorised recordings made by Income Tax authorities in 2008 and 2009, investigating the 2G spectrum scam.
Tata says the tapes should be used for that investigation. The petition claimed that the conversations were selectively leaked to sensationalise the entire issue and were not related to the investigation.
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