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Nation / Thu, 06 Aug 2026 Bar and Bench

Supreme Court seeks Centre's response on plea for CBI probe into breach of 1.5 lakh medical records

He told the Bench that he had furnished details of the Singapore server to which the medical records had allegedly gone, but that the FIR, eventually registered on August 29, 2025, was against unknown persons and invoked only Section 66 of the Information Technology Act. "That is not effective at all," Parameshwar said, adding that this was why he did not trust the investigation and had approached the Supreme Court seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry. During the hearing, Justice Bagchi observed that the Solicitor General had separately been asked to take a relook at the Information Technology Act and consider amendments to it.

He told the Bench that he had furnished details of the Singapore server to which the medical records had allegedly gone, but that the FIR, eventually registered on August 29, 2025, was against unknown persons and invoked only Section 66 of the Information Technology Act.

"That is not effective at all," Parameshwar said, adding that this was why he did not trust the investigation and had approached the Supreme Court seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry.

During the hearing, Justice Bagchi observed that the Solicitor General had separately been asked to take a relook at the Information Technology Act and consider amendments to it.

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