CBDT Clarification on Interception of Telephonic Conversations

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..... CBDT Clarification on Interception of Telephonic Conversations
News and Press Release
Dated:- 28-4-2010

A section of the media has reported communication between the Income Tax departmen .....

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..... t and the Central Bureau of Investigation regarding records of telephonic conversations between a person by the name of Nira Radia and others. It is also reported, citing sources in the CBI, that in a .....

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..... ddition to Radia, telephone lines of several other influential business-men, politicians and advertising professionals were tapped. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has clarified that the In .....

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..... come Tax department has not recorded any telephone conversation of influential businessmen, politicians and advertising professionals as alleged. It is further clarified that the Income Tax departme .....

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..... nt does not intercept telephonic conversations except as authorised under the law. The provision is used in rare and exceptional cases of suspected tax fraud / evasion involving security of the state. .....

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..... The procedure, as prescribed under the law, is strictly followed in all such cases.
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