The court dismissed an appeal filed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and directed it to obtain information sought under the Right to Information Act, 2005 from Vodafone, a private body, and furnish such information to the applicant.

This was on a specific query in which a person asked the TRAI to disclose if his phone was being tapped or placed under surveillance.

The applicant, Kabir Shankar Bose, had specifically sought information under the RTI Act on whether his mobile phone number had been placed under surveillance or tapping by any agency. Simultaneously, the respondent sent a letter requesting the above information to Vodafone, his service provider.