Reliance wants probe in ‘illegal phone tapping’ case

TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi-Reliance Group today said it was “shocked” at reports referring to illegal tapping of phones of some of its executives and expected authorities to fully probe the matter to bring the guilty to book at the earliest.

In a statement, a spokesperson for Anil Ambani-led group said they were “shocked” to see the reports about the so-called tapes referring to “completely illegal and criminal tapping of phones of some individuals in our group, allegedly done by vested interests more than 10-15 years ago, in the period prior to the reorganisation of the Reliance Group.”  Certain news reports have claimed that a corporate house had tapped phones of ministers and industrialists, among others.

“We suspect that the purported conversations, as referred to in the media, must have been spliced, altered, doctored and manipulated to serve the heinous interests of those who engaged in the alleged illegal phone tapping operations. “We have at all times fully complied with the laws of the land in all our business activities, and to suggest otherwise is criminally defamatory,” the Reliance Group spokesperson said.