2G/Radia Tapes and privacy.

Opening arguments on Tata’s petition and seeking court’s redress for the damage to his image because of the leak of tapes which were supposed to be in the exclusive custody of government agencies, senior advocate Harish Salve said, “Any part of these tapes could be looked into by the CBI or any other investigating agency. But publication of comments made in private should not be made public as it could lead to tarnishing images of others.”
He gave the example of an excerpt from Radia tapes in which a person was heard talking about 15% being taken by a minister for every project. “In this, the minister gets damned without there being any evidence about his wrongdoing. This is objectionable. And this is the reason why conversations in purely private domain should not be published,” Salve said.

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A conversation is private so long as it restricts itself to private affairs.
Obviously this is not the case with Radia tapes.
Talks indicate efforts to influence the running of the Government under the garb ob of PROs and lobbyists.
The job of the PRO in this case appears to be one of being very close to powers that be and it is not long before other skeletons including corruption and honey traps start tumbling out.Let’s wait.
Argument for Tata cites an example of a minister demanding 15% for every project being made public tarnishes the image with out any evidence.
Is it not the same Tata who declared that that he could not sleep because he was informed that a minister would have approved his Airlines project if Tata paid 15 Crores.
Does this statement has any proof?
There can not be one law for Tata and another set for ordinary mortals.
Tata should understand he is a business man like every one else is and he need not go about preaching morals to the corporate worls.He is as shady as they come.
Can he honestly declare that he has not paid a single rupee as bribe,couched under entertainment expenses starting from Commercial Tax to the ruling parties?
however Media should report fact with out comments.
Unfortunately electronic media especially Arnab Goswamy is crossing all the limits of journalistic ethics   and coutesy where he becomes the accuser,jury a
Govt. seems to have a valid reason for tapping the phone as it seems to have receives a specific compliant .

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