Report on phone-tapping rocks Centre

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and CPM general secretary Prakash Karat have also been tapped by the National Technical Research Organisation, an intelligence agency created in the aftermath of the Kargil war to cover all aspects of technical intelligence gathering, the magazine said in its latest issue.

The telephone conversations between Pawar and IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi were tapped and taped last fortnight in the wake of the scandal in the cricket league.