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Netaji Files: Government Spooked By Spying Scandal?

Anuj DharMay 08, 2015, 12:15 PM | Updated Feb 11, 2016, 09:25 AM IST
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“Intrusion into the privacy of those posing no threat to national security, misuse of intelligence agencies, snooping on freedom fighters, their kin, journalists and passing on illegally gathered information about Indian citizens to former colonial bosses all make up for that,”





The National Archives, New Delhi

“The IB was routinely informed of the intelligence gathered using this illegal activity, which seems to have been inspired by political considerations rather than any national security need,”






The National Archives, Kew, United Kingdom


“prima facie show that people/institutions spied upon posed no threat to national security”.





“application was meant for the IB and it is for IB to respond to it”















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