Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh): The police officers will not be able to tap the phones of any person because of the amendments in the rules of phone tapping in the Indian Telecommunications Act.

The state police headquarters issued new directives in connection with phone tapping.

Director General of Police (DGP) Kailash Makwana issued an order authorising the Additional Director General of Police (Intelligence) to do any kind of phone tapping.

The new rules have abolished the phone-tapping power of the IG (zone). Now, he will not be able to get anybody’s phone tapped.

If the IG wants to tap anybody’s phone, he has to send a request to the ADG (Intelligence).

In turn, the ADG (Intelligence) will send the request to the service providers to tap or shut anybody’s phone.

Until now, the IG (zon

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