According to the claims by the websites, the snooping was being undertaken at the behest of ‘saheb', an apparent reference to Modi.
In some of the tapes, the then state Home Minister and Modi's close aide Amit Shah is purportedly heard referring to ‘saheb' repeatedly.
“The Gujarat police not only circumvented the process for tapping of phones, some junior officers of the state home department directly ordered the telecom companies to carry out illegal surveillance,” the website has claimed.
It said the move was in clear violation of Indian Telegraph Rule 419 (A) and the Gujarat Government's own notification (dated 29th March 1997), which clearly state that a phone can be tapped only with the written authorisation of the Union Home Secretary or state Home Secretary.
The new tapes contradict the claims made by Gujarat government that the woman was merely being “provided security” during her visits to Gujarat at the request of her father.
The new tapes, the website claimed, establish the woman's surveillance which involved massive use of state machinery and was mounted not to protect her as claimed by the state government but to “stalk her and pry into her private life”.
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