EXPERTS HAVE RAISED CONCERN OVER THE NEW RULES, RELATED TO TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF DEPARTMENT OF THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS.

Interception records are to be destroyed half yearly, where in the experts have raised concern over the new Rules related to the transparency and accountability. As such all records related to interception including the orders and the intercepted messages must be securely and with the extreme secrecy destroyed by the Government's review committee as well as by the authorising entities. Union or the state home secretary and the law enforcement agencies, may six monthly according to the new interception rules notified by the central government, with experts raising questions about the transparency and accountability, is becoming concern over the new rules. The telecommunications (Procedure and safeguards for lawful interception of messages) , Rules-2024 , which replace Rule -419 and 419-A of the telegraph rules-1951 were brought into effect by the department of the telecommunications (DOT) and these have been issued under the telecommunications act, 2023,which allows the centre to specify one or more agencies to intercept messages for the five reasons, related to the National security and the public orders, while under the earlier rules one could still hope to get some information about the interception orders by filing the RTI application, related to the review committee that is also now gone over. It will be as if the interception never existed where is then the scope for the oversight and the accountability, under the new rules, even findings of the review committee which assesses the legality of the interception orders will need to be destroyed. Department of the telecommunications and the telecommunications entity must also destroy records within two months of the discontinuation of interception as per the new rules issued in this behalf, where as the experts have raised concern over the new rules related to the transparency and accountability in this behalf.