Home Ministry refuses to probe 'bugging devices in Gadkari's home'

July 28, 2014 12:45

A new controversy is swirling around a report that bugging devices were found in Union Minister Nitin Gadkari's home in Delhi recently.

However, the Home ministry has rejected calls for a probe by parties like the Congress and its ally Nationalist Congress party.

"Mr Gadkari has himself called it speculation. If so, how can we intervene?" said Kiren Rijiju, Minister of State for Home.

On Sunday, Gadkari had tweeted, "Reports in a section of the media about listening devices having been found at my New Delhi residence are highly speculative." But the denial failed to stop political murmurs.

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