In a related story, a series of revelations and allegations in recent months have exposed a murky world of bugging and phone tapping in India's corridors of power.
Unlike the phone-hacking scandal in Britain - where reporters at Rupert Murdoch's News International were caught listening to celebrities and public figures to generate news - in India, secret surveillance is more often tied up with vendettas between members of the political and corporate elite.
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