The Supreme Court today stayedthe probe into a case of alleged hacking of emails of state'sAdditional Advocate General Tushaar Mehta by Gujarat-cadre'ssuspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt.
A bench of justices Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desaistayed the probe on Bahtt's plea that he is being targeted foraccusing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi of misusing thestate machinery against Muslims during 2002 post-Godhra riots.
A case was registered against Bhatt in Vastrapur policestation here on August 5 last year on Mehta's complaint.
Mehta had alleged in his complaint that Bhatt had hackedinto his e-mail account and had passed the information toothers.
"These communications contain my personal, official, andlegal correspondences which were not only unauthorisedly seenby Bhatt but also shared with others for ulterior motive,which, apart from being a criminal offence, violates my rightof privacy," Mehta had said in his complaint.
Incidentally, Sanjiv Bhatt and Tushar Mehta had long beenfamily friends.