New Delhi: Rejecting charges of political vendetta, government today said the Commission of Inquiry set up by it will probe snooping cases involving multiple states that include alleged surveillance on a woman in Gujarat and leaking of call data records of BJP leader Arun Jaitley.
“There is no vendetta, no revenge, no politics. We are taking action on the basis of facts and following the people's representations sent to the President. We are taking action as per people's wish,” Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told reporters here.
Shinde said that there were constant demands to the central government over the last one-and-a-half months for a probe into the Gujarat case, a reference of the the alleged snooping on a woman at the behest of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. He said a delegation of 47 women had met President Pranab Mukherjee and given representations demanding a probe.
The President had referred the representations to the Home Ministry for necessary action which led to today's decision by the Union Cabinet of setting up of a Commission of Inquiry.
