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New interception rules 2024
December 30 , 2024
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- The Union Government has notified the Telecommunications (Procedures and Safeguards for Lawful Interception of Messages) Rules, 2024.
- It empowers some enforcement and security agencies to intercept the phone messages under certain conditions.
- These rules supersede Rule 419A of the Indian Telegraph Rules, 1951.
- An officer not below the rank of a Joint Secretary to the Union Government, may also issue such order of interception in ‘unavoidable circumstances’ (without defining such circumstances).
- The Central Government may also authorise any law enforcement or security agency to intercept messages for reasons specified under Section 20(2) of the Telecommunications Act, 2023.
- Now, the condition of interception by the authorised agencies only in ‘emergent cases’, has been relaxed.
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