Hardik moves HC against interception of phone calls by cops

October 29, 2015 23:17

Patel quota agitation leader Hardik Patel today moved the Gujarat high court challenging the interception of his and his associates' phone calls by the police and seeking an independent inquiry into it.

"The petitioner challenges the legality...of unlawfully tapping telephones not only of the petitioner but of several thousands persons of the Patidar community...which they (police) have admitted in the FIR against the petitioner," said his plea calling it the "grossest violation of personal liberty".

Hardik's father Bharat Patel filed the petition on his behalf as Hardik himself is in the custody of police.

The city crime branch had on October 21 registered an FIR against Hardik and his aides Chirag Patel, Ketan Patel, Dinesh Patel, Alpesh Kathiria and Amrish Patel on charges of sedition and waging war against the government. The FIR mentions details of call interceptions of the Patel leaders.

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