Also in the Rajya Sabha today:

The government today rejected allegations of phone tapping of BJP leader Arun Jaitley and promised to get the full details of the "unauthorised" obtaining of call details of the Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha.

"The government did not authorise anybody to intercept the telephone of the LOP," Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said in a statement in the Upper House, where he came in for sharp criticism by non-Congress members on the issue.

Shinde said, "This was not a case of telephone tapping. The Indian government is not tapping any member's phone."

Rejecting the statement, BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu said "it is nothing but reporting of an SHO" as the minister has only chosen to say that investigation is going on and interrogation has taken place.

"Normally the suspicion goes to the government...How can such activity take place without the knowledge of the government or its consent...Is there anything for the government to hide... there is something fishy... there is something more than what meets the eyes. How can you be sure that phone tapping did not take place?" Naidu asked.