Union Minister of State for Home replied in Lok Sabha a question about the leaked chats (File)
The central government has no information on the leak of WhatsApp chats related to confidential and sensitive information, including the scrapping of Article 370, which surfaced during the investigation of TRP scam by the Mumbai Police, Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday.
A 500-page transcript of a purported WhatsApp conversation, containing details of the Balakot air strikes and abrogation of Article 370, went viral in January this year after it was submitted by the Mumbai Police before a court as part of its chargesheet in a case of misuse of TV Ratings Point (TRP), which led to a political storm.
"No such information has come to the notice of the government," Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said in a written reply.
Mr Reddy's reply came when asked whether the government has taken cognisance of the leak of the Whatsapp chats on confidential and sensitive information which surfaced during the TRP scam investigation.
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