The Supreme Court on Thursday began in-camera proceedings in the lobbyist Niira Radia phone tapping case for knowing the Centre’s stand and perusing “top-secret” documents, which formed the basis for interception of her calls.
A bench of justices G.S. Singhvi and V. Gopala Gowda had on August 27 decided to hold in-camera proceedings barring lawyers, other than government counsel and its officers including from CBI and Income Tax Department, and media persons from the hearing.
Thursday’s in-camera proceedings will be confined to the bench perusing the government’s confidential report and the Centre’s submission on the issue.
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The conversations were recorded as part of surveillance of Ms. Radia’s phone on a complaint to the Finance Minister on November 16, 2007, alleging that within a span of nine years she had built up a business empire worth crores.