When Jayalalithaa denied recording a phone conversation with Home Minister Shivraj Patil
In October 2004, Tamil Nadu’s then Chief Minister Jayalalithaa was caught in a stormy political situation over a charge that she had recorded a telephone conversation with then Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil. It all began when in an unusual move, the Tamil Nadu government, represented by its Chief Secretary Lakshmi Pranesh, approached the Supreme…