New Delhi
The CBI has approached the United States under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty for collecting metadata and content data of the email id of a formless Yogi who is believed to be NSE official Anand Subramanian being probed in the co-location scam case at the bourse, officials here said Friday.
The Central agency needs the data from Microsoft for the email id [email protected] which was allegedly operated by Subramanian to communicate with the then NSE MD and CEO Chitra Ramkrishna, both under probe in the co-location scam case, they said.
Under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT), which was ratified by India in 2005, both countries help each other in the criminal law matters with the sanction of their respective central authorities–Home Ministry in the case of India and Attorney General in the case of the USA.
The assistance may be in the form of collection of information, recording testimonies, collection of records, documents, locating persons, seizures among others.
The CBI through the Home Ministry has sent the request to the USA to provide metadata and content data of the userid [email protected] from Microsoft Inc to buttress the agency s evidence against Ramkrishna and Subramanian in the case.
Metadata is a form of data that describes the other data with context and details.
The Outlook platform on which the email id was created is a service of Microsoft and the CBI wants the details of email exchanges which may have been deleted from email accounts but can be retrieved by the firm, the officials said.
