Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala's Director General of Police Jacob Punnoose on Tuesday denied ever having snooped on emails of some people, including a former Muslim lawmaker, as reported in the media. Punnoose was reacting after Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy ordered an urgent inquiry into media reports that the Kerala Police Hi-tech Cell since November was snooping on emails of 189 people, all of whom were Muslims. The list included a former lawmaker and a legislator of the ruling front constituent Indian Union Muslim League besides journalists.
"It is unfortunate that such a wrong report was published and none had ever asked for snooping of emails. As part of inquiry into a case it was found out that one individual had created 268 email IDs and the investigation wanted to find out under whose names was all this created. Beyond that nothing has happened," said Punnoose in a press release issued by the office of Chandy Tuesday night.
Earlier in the day, Leader of Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan described the Kerala government's act of snooping into email accounts as fascist. In a statement issued, Achuthanandan slammed Chandy for "following in the footsteps of the American administration and Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi".
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