MUMBAI: Activist Arun Ferreira, an accused in the Elgar Parishad case, told the special NIA court in Mumbai on Friday that the electronic evidence (emails) relied on by the prosecution was obtained without "proper authorisation". The NIA, however, contended that the emails were not intercepted but downloaded during the probe by following due procedure.
Ferreira told the court that he had filed an application two months ago seeking directions to the prosecution to produce an order from a competent authority to carry out such interception. Ferreira had claimed that the email conversations between fellow accused Rona Wilson and one of the wanted accused were intercepted by Pune police on multiple occasions in 2018. The material derived from it is being presented as evidence by the prosecution, he said.
