After an eight-year delay, the Supreme Court will hear industrialist Ratan Tata’s plea asking for an inquiry into the 2010 audio tape leak involving former corporate lobbyist Niira Radia.
According to Ratan Tata, the revelation violated his right to privacy.
In 2011, he submitted the petition. The Supreme Court last heard it in 2014.
As part of a tax inquiry more than ten years ago, Niira Radia’s phone calls with businessmen, journalists, government officials, and other people in high positions were recorded. When her phones were initially bugged in 2008 and then again in 2009, the businessman Mukesh Ambani was a customer of her PR agency, Vaishnavi Corporate Communications, which is no longer in business.
Ratan Tata had requested the Supreme Court for a copy of the government’s report outlining how the tapes, the subject of the scandal that became known as the “Radia tapes,” were leaked in August 2012.
In 2010, the media covered several of Ratan Tata’s interactions with Niira Radia. After that, he filed a lawsuit against the government, claiming that the tapes’ release violated his right to privacy.
