Illegal phone tapping is such a nuisance but is a reality in most of the countries. One is by the State…and now by the news hounds.
Three men have been arrested on suspicion of intercepting telephone calls at the official residence of Britain’s Prince Charles, London police said on Tuesday.
The royal correspondent for The News of the World is among the three suspects, the paper said. The alleged phone tapping may have compromised the security of members of the royal family and other public figures outside the royal circle, Scotland Yard said.
The three men, aged 35, 48 and 50, were arrested early on Tuesday in the London area and are being held at a police station in the capital. Scotland Yard’s anti-terrorism branch is leading the investigation.
Prince Charles, his wife Camilla Parker-Bowles and his late wife Diana, Princess of Wales, were targeted by phone tappers in the past, resulting in embarrassing details of their complex private lives being thrust into the public domain.
A tape of a conversation between Charles and Camilla revealed an intimate relationship between the two while Charles was married to Diana.
So do we expect another earthquake in the royal British household?
Swaraaj Chauhan describes his two-decade-long stint as a full-time journalist as eventful, purposeful, and full of joy and excitement. In 1993 he could foresee a different work culture appearing on the horizon, and decided to devote full time to teaching journalism (also, partly, with a desire to give back to the community from where he had enriched himself so much.)
Alongside, he worked for about a year in 1993 for the US State Department’s SPAN magazine, a nearly five-decade-old art and culture monthly magazine promoting US-India relations. It gave him an excellent opportunity to learn about things American, plus the pleasure of playing tennis in the lavish American embassy compound in the heart of New Delhi.
In !995 he joined WWF-India as a full-time media and environment education consultant and worked there for five years travelling a great deal, including to Husum in Germany as a part of the international team to formulate WWF’s Eco-tourism policy.
He taught journalism to honors students in a college affiliated to the University of Delhi, as also at the prestigious Indian Institute of Mass Communication where he lectured on “Development Journalism” to mid-career journalists/Information officers from the SAARC, African, East European and Latin American countries, for eight years.
In 2004 the BBC World Service Trust (BBC WST) selected him as a Trainer/Mentor for India under a European Union project. In 2008/09 He completed another European Union-funded project for the BBC WST related to Disaster Management and media coverage in two eastern States in India — West Bengal and Orissa.
Last year, he spent a couple of months in Australia and enjoyed trekking, and also taught for a while at the University of South Australia.
Recently, he was appointed as a Member of the Board of Studies at Chitkara University in Chandigarh, a beautiful city in North India designed by the famous Swiss/French architect Le Corbusier. He also teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students there.
He loves trekking, especially in the hills, and never misses an opportunity to play a game of tennis. The Western and Indian classical music are always within his reach for instant relaxation.
And last, but not least, is his firm belief in the power of the positive thought to heal oneself and others.