NSE phone-tapping case: Delhi court takes cognizance of ED case against NSE ex-CEO, former Mumbai top cop

A Delhi court has taken cognizance of an Enforcement Directorate (ED) complaint against former National Stock Exchange (NSE) CEO Chitra Ramakrishna, the bourse’s ex-MD Ravi Narain, former Mumbai Police commissioner Sanjay Pandey, and his company iSec Services Ltd in a case of tapping phones of NSE employees.

Special Judge Sunena Sharma on Saturday took cognisance of the ED prosecution complaint, which is equivalent to a chargesheet.

The court said that Ramakrishna in her statement to ED admitted the fact of “intercepting/monitoring/recording of telephone calls of NSE employees, and that she met Sanjay Pandey in connection with said interception/monitoring/recording of telephone calls and introduced him to other NSE employees working under her for said illegal purpose”.