With Jayalalitha's support, Amar Singh set to move
SC on phone- tapping issue

     New Delhi: Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh will now file an appeal in the Supreme Court over the phone-tapping controversy. He informed reporters of this move after meeting Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalitha. Amar Singh also said that Jayalalitha too was supportive of his stand. He demanded that "the probe be given either to the UP Special Task Force or to the trio of West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Bihar Chief Ministers, since his leader Mulayam Singh Yadav has no faith in CBI."

   Thursday's move comes close on the heels of CPI(M) extending support to the Samajwadi Party leader terming the phone-tapping issue as 'serious' and demanded a fool-proof enquiry into the 'conspiracy'. However, CPI (M) leader Prakash Karat had added that this was a result of the government's foreign direct investment policy in the telecom sector which now required a thorough introspection. With the Left and Jayalaitha's support, Amar Singh is now looking forward to harnessing support of more non-Congress leaders on this issue. The Congress Party, however, has gone on the offensive against Amar Singh, asking what kind of probe the SP leader would like to have. Congress leader Ambika Soni further questioned the SP leader on why he was not filing a FIR against Reliance Infocomm where the alleged tapping took place. She also demanded to know the contents of the tapped conversations. Meanwhile, Bhupinder Singh a key accused arrested in this connection was produced in court today. The owner of a detective agency, Bhupinder was arrested last week.