The Supreme Court bench of Justices G S Singhvi and V Gopala Gowda questioned the rationality or justification of securing permission for tapping corporate lobbyist Radia's telephone and sternly asked the CBI team probing the spectrum scam to take a fresh look at the sensational cache of telephone calls.The bench expressed distress that the investigating agencies did not probe the "serious criminality" reflected in the conversations referred to as Radia tapes wondering why the delay or basic justification such power of tapping, when they said, "For five years, they had the tapes and transcripts. It shows serious criminality. But they have not done anything. Are they waiting for court orders," .
HI smells that such methods are used, by obtaining such dictatorial permission of intercepting conversations of politicians, bureaucrats, businessmen or even journalists, in the disguise of "National Interest and Security", only for getting important personal informations and then pass on "those" to their bosses may be political also, and which is inadvertently used or Misused to nail or blackmail someone for their personal objectives, and only very rarely used for national interest.
The Supreme Court observed the issue in a larger context and said, "We are asking the larger question. There may be thousands of such interceptions which could have a bearing on national interest. Intercepted conversations in this case concern a lady. But in some other case it could be officials who are intensely negotiating sensitive equipment for Navy or Army. The government comes to know of involvement of middlemen or arms dealers and they intercept their conversation. If the agencies do not take any action, what should be done?" But it added, "We pointed out one more area which has got huge significance in modern times affecting governance. They talk very loosely about how to mould a particular decision in a particular manner. The top government officials are aware of it. These are more serious matters. Yet no action has been taken."