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Mamata orders probe into phone tapping during Left regime Kolkata, May 26 No rules were followed in tapping phones of political leaders, journalists and even common people during Left Front regime which would be inquired into, she told reporters here. “We have asked the Chief Secretary, the Home Secretary and Kolkata police chief to probe at whose instance and for what purpose such phone tapping had taken place,” she said after a meeting with senior IPS officers of the Kolkata police, including police commissioner RK Pachnanda. “Phone tapping is a violation of privacy. Phone tapping is done in case of terrorists and criminals and that too with the permission of the Home Ministry,” she said. She said there was public grievance for a long time about phone tapping without the permission of the Home Ministry. Chief Secretary Samar Ghosh and the Home Secretary GD Gautama were present at the meeting.
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