The main character is a journalist named Digu Tipnis ( Nilu Phule ) who uncovers a network of telephone tapping, relations between trade unions and politicians, etc . The plot addresses Maharashtra's political corruption linked with Mumbai's entrepreneurial sector.
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The allegations of telephone tapping surfaced on Sunday when Channel 2 television released a computer disk with transcripts of about 1, 000 calls made from Perez de Cuellar's home telephone between October 1994 and August 1995, allegedly taped by intelligence operatives.
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A political scandal over telephone tapping that brought down the Estonian government last week has led many people here to wonder how far the country has come from the days when Soviet police agents spied on citizens without regard to law.
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In cases going back to the 1970s, prisoners won the right to consult lawyers and sue the government; some interrogation techniques were banned in Northern Ireland; controls on telephone tapping were tightened; and children were barred from being tried in adult criminal courts.
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Telephone tapping is strictly regulated in many countries, " especially in all developed evidence shows it is not possible to detect criminal or subversive activity in less intrusive ways; often the law and regulations require that the crime investigated must be at least of a certain severity.
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In the Greek telephone tapping case 2004 2005 more than 100 mobile phone numbers belonging mostly to members of the Greek government, including the Prime Minister of Greece, and top-ranking civil servants were found to have been illegally tapped for a period of at least one year.
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For example, the British newspaper " The Independent " reported back in 1996 that the U . S . National Security Agency " taps UK phones " at the request of the British intelligence agency MI5, thus allowing British agents to evade restrictive limitations on domestic telephone tapping.
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Citing an " extensive, continued and pervasive failure to observe not one but numerous provisions of the Constitution, " the court upheld Leghari's charges that Ms . Bhutto and her ministers had ordered the killings of political opponents in Karachi, sought to harass and intimidate Supreme Court judges, authorized a widespread pattern of illegal telephone tapping and engaged in " corruption, nepotism and violation of rules ."
