https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=456660 Telephone interception under Section 5(2) of the Indian Telegraph Act is permissible only on strict satisfaction of the statutory preconditions of public emergency or public safety, and only if it also meets constitutional requirements of legality, legitimate aim, proportionality, and procedural safeguards. The discussion draws on PUCL and K.S. Puttaswamy to state that interception implicates Article 21 privacy rights and cannot rest on unsupported or inadequate material. Where interception is found to lack lawful sanction, the intercepted messages and recordings must be destroyed and excluded from use in proceedings. en-us Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 07 Aug 2024 20:37:19 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=456660 Telephone interception under Section 5(2) of the Indian Telegraph Act is permissible only on strict satisfaction of the statutory preconditions of public emergency or public safety, and only if it also meets constitutional requirements of legality, legitimate aim, proportionality, and procedural safeguards. The discussion draws on PUCL and K.S. Puttaswamy to state that interception implicates Article 21 privacy rights and cannot rest on unsupported or inadequate material. Where interception is found to lack lawful sanction, the intercepted messages and recordings must be destroyed and excluded from use in proceedings. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=456660