The much hyped inquiry into illegal phone tapping case has been completed by the vigilance department and the report is likely to be submitted to the home department anytime now.
Vigilance department was handed over the inquiry by state government to investigate the hard discs seized from technical cell of CID department and even vigilance department after state Forensic Science laboratory analyzed and retrieved the data.
Since the Congress government under chief minister Virbhadra Singh came into power, technical cells and vigilance cell were raided and computers were seized along with several snooping devices. In the report to be submitted, Vigilance department has found that 1385 phone calls were illegally tapped by the CID and Vigilance till December 2012.
It was also found that no requisite permission was taken from home department for keeping phones under surveillance. Former DGP, ID Bhandari who was heading CID department as ADGP during BJP Government and some senior officials who worked in technical cell and CID had come under scanner. Bhandari was removed from the post of DGP.